Meaning

6 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)Race; family; breed; kind.

    the starfish and its kin the sea urchin

  2. (collective, countable, uncountable)Persons of the same race or family; kindred.

    c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.

  3. (countable, uncountable)One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.

    Verwandtschaft, Verwandte

    родня́rodnjá, ро́дственникиródstvenniki, ро́дичиródiči

    рідня́ridnjá, ро́дичіródyči

  4. (countable, uncountable)Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

  5. (slang)A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.

  6. (slang)Someone who identifies as a certain fictional character.

More definitions
  • group of people related by blood or marriage
  • a person having kinship with another or others

Examples

15 sentences
  1. The next of kin have been notified.

  2. The police will release the victim's name after they have notified his next of kin.

    ruПолиция раскроет имя жертвы после того, как известит ближайших родственников. — odexed

    deDie Polizei wird den Namen des Opfers nach Benachrichtigung der nächsten Angehörigen bekanntgeben. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. They came with kith and kin.

    deSie kamen mit Kind und Kegel. — freddy1

  4. You are no kin of mine.

    deDu bist kein Verwandter von mir. — al_ex_an_der

  5. They are of kin to each other.

Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
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Русский
By meaning 1
relatives collectively:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
relatives collectively:

Origin

From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germa

From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).

Clipping of fictionkin.

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Forms

plural: kins / kin
Singularkin
Pluralkins / kin

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

31 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
kin — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto