kin

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

kin, n. 

 A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.  Riemann.  [1913 Webster]

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. Kind, King, Gender kind, Nation.].

•  Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.  [1913 Webster]
•  Relatives; persons of the same family or race.  [1913 Webster]

  "The father, mother, and the kin beside."  [1913 Webster]

  "You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons."  [1913 Webster]

kin, n. [Gr. kinei^n to move.].

 The unit velocity in the C. G. S. system -- a velocity of one centimeter per second.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

kin, a. 

 Of the same nature or kind; kinder.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

kin, n. & adj.
--n. one's relatives or family.
--predic.adj. (of a person) related (we are kin; he is kin to me) (see also AKIN).

Idiom

kith and kin see KITH. near of kin closely related by blood, or in character. next of kin see NEXT.

Derivative

kinless adj.

Etymology

OE cynn f. Gmc

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

kin

Class

N class, division, category, categorema, head, order, section, department, subdepartment, province, domain, kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race, tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset, assortment, feather, kidney, suit, range, gender, sex, kin, manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character, stamp predicament, indication, particularization, selection, specification, similarity.