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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

KINS'FOLK, n. [kin and folk.] Relations; kindred; persons of the same family.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry]

Merriam Webster's

noun plural Date: 15th century relatives

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. (US kinfolk) one's relations by blood.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Kinsfolk Kins"folk`, n. Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families. They sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. --Luke ii. 44.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Note: The spellings 'kinfolk', and sometimes in American English 'kinfolks' are also used. Your kinsfolk or kinfolk are the people who are related to you. (LITERARY) Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk should come to her... I sent my other son to the country to stay with kinfolk. = family, relations N-PLURAL: oft poss N

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kinz'-fok.

See KINDRED.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Relations, relatives, kin, kindred, kinsmen, kith and kin.