kin
Related by blood or marriage, akinRelated by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)
» The next of kin have been notified.
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1 senses(not comparable, uncommon)Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)
It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:kin.
related by blood
Examples
15 sentencesThe next of kin have been notified.
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
They came with kith and kin.
deSie kamen mit Kind und Kegel. — freddy1
You are no kin of mine.
deDu bist kein Verwandter von mir. — al_ex_an_der
They are of kin to each other.
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West GermaFrom 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”).
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Synonyms
6 synonyms- related by blood:akinblood-relatedcognateconsanguineconsanguineousconsanguineal
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.