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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: related by blood [syn: akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal, kin] n
1: a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family" [syn: kin, kinsperson, family]
2: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English cynn; akin to Old High German chunni race, Latin genus birth, race, kind, Greek genos, Latin gignere to beget, Greek gignesthai to be born Date: before 12th century 1. a group of persons of common ancestry ; clan 2. a. one's relatives ; kindred b. kinsman <he wasn't any kin to you — Jean Stafford> 3. archaic kinship II. adjective Date: 1597 kindred, related

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & adj. --n. one's relatives or family. --predic.adj. (of a person) related (we are kin; he is kin to me) (see also AKIN). Phrases and idioms: kith and kin see KITH. near of kin closely related by blood, or in character. next of kin see NEXT. Derivatives: kinless adj. Etymology: OE cynn f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Kin Kin, a. Of the same nature or kind; kinder. ``Kin to the king.'' --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

kin kin [Of Low German origin; cf. G. -chen, LG. -- ken.] A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Kin Kin, n. (Mus.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. --Riemann.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Kin Kin, n. [OE. kin, cun, AS. cynn kin, kind, race, people; akin to cennan to beget, D. kunne sex, OS. & OHG. kunni kin, race, Icel. kyn, Goth. kuni, G. & D. kind a child, L. genus kind, race, L. gignere to beget, Gr. ? to be born, Skr. jan to beget. ?. Cf. Kind, King, Gender kind, Nation.] 1. Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent. 2. Relatives; persons of the same family or race. The father, mother, and the kinbeside. --Dryden. You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons. --Bacon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Kin Kin, n. Also Kine Kine [Gr. ? to move.] (Physics) The unit velocity in the C.G.S. system -- a velocity of one centimeter per second.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Your kin are your relatives. (DIALECT or OLD-FASHIONED) She has gone to live with her husband's kin. N-PLURAL see also kith and kin, next of kin

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

See KINDRED.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Relationship (by blood or by marriage), consanguinity. 2. Relations, relatives, kindred, kinsfolk, connections. II. a. Related, allied, kindred, akin, cognate, of the same nature, of the same kind, of the same family.

Moby Thesaurus

agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bracket, branch, brand, breed, cast, caste, category, character, clan, clansman, class, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, color, connections, consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, cousinhood, denomination, description, designation, distaff side, distant relation, division, enate, estate, family, feather, flesh, flesh and blood, folk, folks, form, genre, genus, german, grade, grain, group, grouping, head, heading, ilk, kidney, kind, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, label, level, line, lineage, lot, make, manner, mark, mold, nature, near relation, next of kin, number, order, people, persuasion, phylum, pigeonhole, position, posterity, predicament, race, rank, rating, related, relation, relations, relatives, rubric, section, sept, set, shape, sib, sibling, sort, spear kin, spear side, species, spindle kin, spindle side, stamp, station, status, stock, strain, stratum, stripe, style, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, sword side, the like of, the likes of, title, tribe, tribesman, type, uterine kin, variety