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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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2. Relatives; persons of the same family or race.
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The father, mother, and the kin beside. --Dryden.
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You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons.
--Bacon.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
121 Moby Thesaurus words for "kin":
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
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