Meaning

1 senses
  1. A male relative.

    Verwandter, Angehöriger, Landsmann

    ро́дственникródstvennik

    ро́дичródyč

    a male relative

Examples

5 sentences
  1. And he let his kinsman depart: and he returned and went into his own country.

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  2. "His kinsman, by a needy father sent, / with him in boyhood to the war I came."

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  3. And he went out to meet his kinsman, and worshipped and kissed him: and they saluted one another with words of peace.

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  4. "Fie, cousin!" said Elizabeth; "such thoughts ill beseem the nearest kinsman of the future queen of England."

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  5. "Himself, a foe, oft lauded Troy's renown, / and claimed the Teucrian sires as kinsmen of his own."

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
male relative:
Русский
By meaning 1
male relative:
Deutsch
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male relative:

Origin

From Middle English kynnesman, equivalent to kin + -s- + -man.

From Middle English kynnesman, equivalent to kin + -s- + -man.

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Forms

plural: kinsmen
Singularkinsman
Pluralkinsmen

irregular · Lesson

Word family

2 related words

See also

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