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kin

(kĭn)

a. (used with a pl. verb) One's relatives or family: visited my aunt and her kin.

b. A relative or family member: Is she kin of yours?

2. (used with a pl. verb) Organisms that are genetically related to another or others: cauliflower and its kin.

adj.

1. Related genetically or in the same family.

2. Related or similar; akin: "If he feels a wisp of longing for her ... it is kin to what the serpent must have felt for Eve" (Barbara Klein Moss).

[Middle English, from Old English cyn; see genə- in Indo-European roots.]

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kin

(kɪn)

1. a person's relatives collectively; kindred

2. a class or group with similar characteristics

3. See next of kin

adj

4. (postpositive) related by blood

5. a less common word for akin

[Old English cyn; related to Old Norse kyn family, Old High German kind child, Latin genus kind]

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kin

(kɪn)

n.

1. all of a person's relatives; kindred.

2. a relative or kinsman.

3. a group of persons tracing or claiming descent from a common ancestor, or constituting a family, clan, tribe, or race.

4. someone or something of the same or similar kind.

5. family relationship or kinship.

adj.

6. of the same family; related; akin.

7. of the same kind or nature; having affinity.

Idioms:

of kin, related; akin.

[before 900; Middle English; Old English cyn; c. Old Saxon, Old High German kunni, Old Norse kyn, Gothic kuni; akin to Latin genus, Greek génos, Skt jánas. compare gender¹]

kin′less, adj.

-kin

a diminutive suffix of nouns: catkin.

[Middle English < Middle Dutch, Middle Low German -ken]

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Noun	1.	kin - a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family" kinsperson, family affine - (anthropology) kin by marriage relative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
	2.	kin - group of people related by blood or marriage clan, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe social group - people sharing some social relation mishpachah, mishpocha - (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha" family unit, family - primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" folks - your parents; "he wrote to his folks every day" family tree, genealogy - successive generations of kin totem - a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object Tribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israel - twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob relative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" clan member, clansman, clanswoman - a member of a clan tribesman - someone who lives in a tribe
Adj.	1.	kin - related by blood blood-related, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, akin, cognate related - connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage

kin

noun family, people, relations, relatives, connections, kindred, kinsmen, kith, kinsfolk She has gone to live with her husband's kin.

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kin

noun

1. One's relatives collectively:

family, kindred, kinfolk.

2. A person connected to another person by blood or marriage:

kinsman, kinswoman, relation, relative.

Translations

أقْرِباء، أنسِباءمَتَعَلِّق، قريب

beslægtetslægt

Sippe verwandt Verwandtschaft

de la familia familiares pariente parientes

sukusukulainen

parent famille

ættmenni, skyldmenniskyldur

congiunto parente parenti

artimiausias giminėgiminaitėgiminaitisgķminės

dzimtaradiradiniekiradniecisks

i slekt slekt

parente

родня

aileden olanakrabaakraba olan kimsehısım

亲属家属家族有亲属关系的

kin

[kɪn] N → familiares mpl, parientes mpl
next of kin → familiar(es) m(pl) or pariente(s) m(pl) más cercano(s)

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kin

[ˈkɪn] n (= relations) → famille f
see also next of kin, kith and kin

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kin

n → Familie f, → Verwandte pl, → Verwandtschaft f; has he any kin? → hat er Verwandte or Familie? ? kith, next of kin

adj → verwandt (to mit)

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kin

[kɪn] n → parenti mpl, familiari mpl
see also kith, next of kin

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

kin

(kin) noun plural

persons of the same family; one's relations.

adjective

related.

ˈkinsfolk (ˈinz-) noun plural

one's relations.

ˈkinsman (ˈkinz-) , ˈkinswoman (ˈkinz-) – plurals ˈkinsmen, ~ˈkinswomen – nouns

a man or a woman of the same family as oneself.

next of kin

one's nearest relative(s).

kin

n parientes mf, familia; next of — parientes más cercanos

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Dog my cats if it ain't all I kin do to tell t' other fum which, let alone his pappy."

Dey ain't no man kin ever sell mammy's po' little honey down de river now!"

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They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts, by his body; and, if he be not of kin to God, by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

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"Ah, we blokies kin lick deh hull damn Row," said a child, swaggering.

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I say it's unbecoming to be making a joke when you see your own kin going headlongs to ruin."

"There's folks I've lent money to, as perhaps I shall repent o' lending money to kin."

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"If gentlemen kin afford to pay a dollar a mile apiece to be took on and put off in a yawl, a steam- boat kin afford to carry 'em, can't it?"

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I choose to give the Tredowen estates away, to disappoint my next of kin. That is how you may regard the transaction.

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"To sundry it is given to be drawn away, and to be apart from the body for a season; for, as concerning rills which would flow across each other the weaker is borne along by the stronger, so there be certain of kin whose paths intersecting, their souls do bear company, the while their bodies go fore-appointed ways, unknowing."

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"The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din."

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Lead him straight within, For it is seemly that a kinsman's woes Be heard by kin and seen by kin alone.

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"However, 'tis well to be kin to a coach, even if you don't ride in 'en." She dropped her public voice, and continued in a low tone to her husband: "I've been thinking since you brought the news that there's a great rich lady out by Trantridge, on the edge o' The Chase, of the name of d'Urberville."