Noun
They are her distant kin.
invited all of his kith and kin to his graduation party
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Noun
Asian elephants—the extinct woolly mammoth’s closest surviving kin—require 22 months, the longest gestation period of any mammal.—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 7 Apr. 2025 Among other differences, Remus and Romulus also have wider heads, larger teeth and jaws, and more muscular legs than its kin, Time reported.—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
And non-kin pairs were more likely to engage in this genital-to-genital contact than kin.—New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025 The Secret Service was not playing to get in that motherf–kin’ stadium.—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kin
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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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