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Definition of kin in English: kinnoun kɪnkɪn 1treated as plural One's family and relations. many elderly people have no kin to turn to for assistance Example sentencesExamples - There is kin - immediate and extended family - and close behind that, neighbors, members of my social group, people to whom I can turn in need, people like me.
- All of the mother and fathers' relatives are considered kin.
- Family and kin are the primary focus of an individual's loyalties and identity.
- Traveling together with family, friends, and extended kin these mobile groups bond and build community life.
- Extended family and kin are an important part of the social structure of the republic.
- As is the case with many blended or separated families, children don't always understand the relationships between kin.
- Most families are in practice extended, with elderly or other kin in the household and other relatives nearby.
- A pervasive myth is that the extended family does not exist and that society is composed of nuclear families cut off from extended kin.
- From the moment of birth an infant is showered with attention and care by family members and extended kin.
- Neoreligious communities have emerged in which people are guided to the other side to communicate with deceased family members and kin.
- A powerful deterrent to deviant behavior is that such behavior brings shame to one's family and kin and is considered sinful.
- That is, men interact with their wives' kin as individuals rather than as representatives of their corporate Houses.
- The family also teaches that kin are the appropriate source of friendly companionship.
- Nuclear families are the main kin group, with relatives involved as kin in the extended family.
- Marriage always takes place then (in theory) between people who are already kin but only kin of a specified kind.
- Most households are not nuclear families, but contain other kin as well.
- In gathering information about who lives in the home and who fulfills family roles, it is important to assess for the involvement of extended family and non-blood kin.
- At every level of society a person looks to family and kin for both social identity and succor.
- This often makes mutual aid and small business formation a whole family strategy, encompassing extended and mythical kin with geographical or social ties in the sending country.
- Relatives seek out prospective mates for their kin from desirable families.
Synonyms relatives, relations, family, family members, kindred, connections, clan, tribe, kith and kin, one's own flesh and blood, nearest and dearest kinsfolk, kinsmen/kinswomen informal folks dated people - 1.1 Animals or plants that are related to a particular species or kind.
dolphins, whales, and their kin the Acari include ticks, mites, and their kin Example sentencesExamples - This may allow non-breeding animals to pass along the genes they share with their kin by helping in the rearing of young.
- Juvenile salmon clearly avoided kin when they shared shelters and preferred to associate with unrelated conspecifics.
- The preceding plants form a grade between the lineages considered in Lab 9 (conifers, Ginkgo and Cordaites) and the flowering plants and their kin.
- Smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, however, may have fed to a greater extent than their larger kin on plants defended by qualitative toxins.
- Precisely how fishes and other animals recognize kin is hotly debated in the scientific community.
adjectivekɪnkɪn predicative (of a person) related. he was kin to the brothers Example sentencesExamples - They would have seen themselves as intellectually kin to men who do not figure in these lists - priests or scholars who had on the face of it no great philosophical interest.
- Though he is kin to God in nature, all his character is unlike God.
- They are kin to dragons from when humans first settled on Pern.
Synonyms related, akin, allied, close, connected with, cognate with rare consanguineous, consanguine
Derivatives adjective The Anganen rawa man emerges in the image of the cassowary as the solitary, kinless, irrational, violent being of masculine excess. Example sentencesExamples - I belong to a generation of kinless childhoods, where we grew up without grandparents, numerous uncles, aunts, cousins and relatives who had perished, yet whose silent presence loomed in the background.
- Hey, maybe you're in a movie where your boyfriend is some sort of kinless clone or alien.
Origin Old English cynn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kunne, from an Indo-European root meaning 'give birth to', shared by Greek genos and Latin genus 'race'. Rhymes agin, akin, begin, Berlin, bin, Boleyn, Bryn, chin, chin-chin, Corinne, din, fin, Finn, Flynn, gaijin, Glyn, grin, Gwyn, herein, Ho Chi Minh, in, inn, Jin, jinn, Kweilin, linn, Lynn, mandolin, mandoline, Min, no-win, pin, Pinyin, quin, shin, sin, skin, spin, therein, thin, Tientsin, tin, Tonkin, Turin, twin, underpin, Vietminh, violin, wherein, whin, whipper-in, win, within, Wynne, yin Definition of kin in US English: kinnounkɪnkin 1treated as plural One's family and relations. he is expected to make a payment to his wife's kin Example sentencesExamples - Extended family and kin are an important part of the social structure of the republic.
- In gathering information about who lives in the home and who fulfills family roles, it is important to assess for the involvement of extended family and non-blood kin.
- A powerful deterrent to deviant behavior is that such behavior brings shame to one's family and kin and is considered sinful.
- Family and kin are the primary focus of an individual's loyalties and identity.
- Traveling together with family, friends, and extended kin these mobile groups bond and build community life.
- There is kin - immediate and extended family - and close behind that, neighbors, members of my social group, people to whom I can turn in need, people like me.
- Relatives seek out prospective mates for their kin from desirable families.
- The family also teaches that kin are the appropriate source of friendly companionship.
- This often makes mutual aid and small business formation a whole family strategy, encompassing extended and mythical kin with geographical or social ties in the sending country.
- That is, men interact with their wives' kin as individuals rather than as representatives of their corporate Houses.
- Most families are in practice extended, with elderly or other kin in the household and other relatives nearby.
- Neoreligious communities have emerged in which people are guided to the other side to communicate with deceased family members and kin.
- At every level of society a person looks to family and kin for both social identity and succor.
- Marriage always takes place then (in theory) between people who are already kin but only kin of a specified kind.
- As is the case with many blended or separated families, children don't always understand the relationships between kin.
- A pervasive myth is that the extended family does not exist and that society is composed of nuclear families cut off from extended kin.
- From the moment of birth an infant is showered with attention and care by family members and extended kin.
- Nuclear families are the main kin group, with relatives involved as kin in the extended family.
- Most households are not nuclear families, but contain other kin as well.
- All of the mother and fathers' relatives are considered kin.
Synonyms relatives, relations, family, family members, kindred, connections, clan, tribe, kith and kin, one's own flesh and blood, nearest and dearest - 1.1 Animals or plants that are related to a particular species or kind.
dolphins, whales, and their kin the Acari include ticks, mites, and their kin Example sentencesExamples - This may allow non-breeding animals to pass along the genes they share with their kin by helping in the rearing of young.
- Juvenile salmon clearly avoided kin when they shared shelters and preferred to associate with unrelated conspecifics.
- Precisely how fishes and other animals recognize kin is hotly debated in the scientific community.
- Smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, however, may have fed to a greater extent than their larger kin on plants defended by qualitative toxins.
- The preceding plants form a grade between the lineages considered in Lab 9 (conifers, Ginkgo and Cordaites) and the flowering plants and their kin.
adjectivekɪnkin predicative Related. he was kin to the brothers See also akin Example sentencesExamples - They would have seen themselves as intellectually kin to men who do not figure in these lists - priests or scholars who had on the face of it no great philosophical interest.
- They are kin to dragons from when humans first settled on Pern.
- Though he is kin to God in nature, all his character is unlike God.
Synonyms related, akin, allied, close, connected with, cognate with
Origin Old English cynn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kunne, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘give birth to’, shared by Greek genos and Latin genus ‘race’. |