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Kin

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Noun

1. family, kin, kinsperson

a person having kinship with another or others

Example Sentences:
'he's kin'
'he's family'

2. clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe

group of people related by blood or marriage

Adjective

3. akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin

related by blood

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Kin

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noun
1. 
a person's relatives collectively; kindred
2. 
a class or group with similar characteristics
3.  next of kin
adjective
4. (postpositive)
related by blood
5.  a less common word for akin

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Kin

see synonyms of kin
noun
1. 
one's family; relatives; kinfolk; kindred
adjective
2. 
related, as by blood; kindred

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Kin

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suff.
Little one: devilkin.
n.
1.
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).

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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