Noun
They are her distant kin.
invited all of his kith and kin to his graduation party
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Noun
Liam Payne left his kin with a big inheritance before his death.—Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024 That fan base inevitably could bode well for his kin’s next venture.—Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 16 Oct. 2024
Adjective
Bennett’s musings have an ethical component: if a nuisance tree, or a dead tree, or a dead rat is my kin, then everything is kin—even a piece of trash.—Morgan Meis, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023 The Oscar winners have been friends for half a century and their kin span generations.—Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023 See all Example Sentences for kin
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English cynn; akin to Old High German chunni race, Latin genus birth, race, kind, Greek genos, Latin gignere to beget, Greek gignesthai to be born
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