kin
Meaning of kin
- one's family and relations.
many elderly people have no kin to turn to for assistance
- (of a person) related.
he was kin to the brothers
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’.
suffix
forming diminutive nouns such as bumpkin, catkin.
from Middle Dutch -kijn, -ken, Middle Low German -kīn .
Information about kin
- The plural form of kin is: kins.
- Languages in which kin is used:
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Hyphenation of kin
kin
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- kin is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
kin synonyms
Meaning akin:
akin, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal
Meaning kinsperson:
Meaning kin group:
Meaning a person connected by blood or marriage:
Meaning a person who is connected by blood or marriage; a relative:
Meaning people with whom one has social or professional contact or to whom one is related, especially those with influence and able to offer one help:
Meaning (in anthropological or formal use) a person's blood relations, regarded collectively:
Meaning the members of one's family, especially one's parents:
Meaning one's parents or relatives:
Meaning belonging to the same family, group, or type; connected:
Meaning joined by or relating to members of an alliance:
Meaning only a short distance away or apart in space or time:
Translation of kin
- French: parent, apparenté
- German: verwandt
- Spanish: emparentado
- Italian: imparentato
Anagrams of kin
Words that rhyme with kin
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