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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024kin /kɪn/USA pronunciation n. [plural]- Anthropologyall of a person's relatives.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024kin (kin),USA pronunciation n. - Anthropology, Sociologya person's relatives collectively;
kinfolk. - Anthropology, Sociology, Sociologyfamily relationship or kinship.
- Anthropology, Sociologya group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a family, clan, tribe, or race.
- Anthropology, Sociologya relative or kinsman.
- someone or something of the same or similar kind:philosophy and its kin, theology.
- Idioms of kin, of the same family;
related;
akin:Although their surnames are identical they are not of kin.
adj. - of the same family;
related;
akin. - of the same kind or nature;
having affinity.
- bef. 900; Middle English; Old English cyn; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German kunni, Old Norse kyn, Gothic kuni; akin to Latin genus, Greek génos, Sanskrit jánas. See gender
- a diminutive suffix of nouns:lambkin.
- Middle Dutch, Middle Low German -ken; cognate with German -chen
- Middle English
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