'Kin' definitions:
Definition of 'kin'
From: WordNet
adjective
Related by blood [syn: akin(p), blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal, kin(p)]
noun
A person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family" [syn: kin, kinsperson, family]
noun
Group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]
Definition of 'Kin'
From: GCIDE
- Kin \Kin\ (k[i^]n), n. (Mus.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings. --Riemann. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Kin'
From: GCIDE
- 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. gi`gnesqai to be born, Skr. jan to beget. [root]44. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Relatives; persons of the same family or race. [1913 Webster]
- The father, mother, and the kin beside. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] Kin
Definition of 'Kin'
From: GCIDE
- Kin \Kin\ (k[i^]n), n. Also Kine \Kine\ (k[imac]n). [Gr. kinei^n to move.] (Physics) The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system -- a velocity of one centimeter per second. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Kin'
From: GCIDE
- Kin \Kin\, a. Of the same nature or kind; kinder. "Kin to the king." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'kin'
From: 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