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- Dictionarykin/kɪn/
noun
- 1. one's family and relations: "many elderly people have no kin to turn to for assistance"
adjective
- 1. (of a person) related: "he was kin to the brothers"
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The meaning of KIN is a group of persons of common ancestry : clan. How to use kin in a sentence.
KIN definition: 1. family and relations 2. your closest relation or relations: 3. family and relations. Learn more.
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. 6. of the same family; related; akin.
6 meanings: 1. a person's relatives collectively; kindred 2. a class or group with similar characteristics 3. → See next of kin.... Click for more definitions.
Family, race, blood-relations. I.1.a. A group of persons descended from a common ancestor, and so connected by blood-relationship; a family, stock, clan; †in Old English also, people, nation, tribe (frequently with defining genitive, as Israela, Caldea cyn); = kind n. III.11, kindred n. A.3. Now rare.
Some say kin, others say "family" or "relatives." Call them what you will, but you’re stuck with those people related to you by blood or marriage. When someone refers to their kith and kin, she means her friends and family. Both words date back to Old English, with kin reaching back to the 700s.
Definition of kin noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
A complete guide to the word "KIN": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
KIN definition: the members of your family. Learn more.
someone or something of the same or similar kind: philosophy and its kin, theology. akin: Although their surnames are identical they are not of kin. akin. 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
