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noun

ˈkin How to pronounce kin (audio)
Definition of kinnext
1
as in family
a group of persons who come from the same ancestor invited all of his kith and kin to his graduation party

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2
as in cousin
a person connected with another by blood or marriage since she did not appear to be kin to either side, we've no idea what she was doing at the wedding

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kin

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adjective

as in kindred

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Recent Examples of kin
Noun
In Mexican cooking, those moorings are salsa, moles and their kin. — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 25 Aug. 2026 In a news release Thursday, the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office detailed its efforts to identify and find kin for a man found floating in a portion of the lengthy creek that goes through Metcalf Park on June 14, 1997. — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026
Adjective
And non-kin pairs were more likely to engage in this genital-to-genital contact than kin. — New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025 Chickens also retain a smidge of the predatory instinct that made their kin such formidable hunters. — Scott Travers, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for kin
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kin
  1. family
  2. cousin
  3. kindred
  4. tribe
  5. relative
  6. folk
  7. clan
  8. national
Noun
  • Another family attempted to navigate the gate to access medical appointments.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Sanders, who spoke alongside el Sayed in Grand Rapids, said Trump’s attacks on the Democratic candidate were rooted in Islamophobia because Republicans have little to say about the issues affecting working families.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of family
Noun
  • Panday is the nephew of actor Chunky Panday and a cousin of actor Ananya Panday.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Oct. 2026
  • When her 9-year-old daughter’s hand quivered, a teenage cousin helped guide the clipper over her mother’s scalp.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of cousin
Adjective
  • Still, devotees of John Waters, Sean Baker, Todd Solondz and the Safdie brothers will sense that DeFalco is a kindred spirit, a filmmaker with an open-minded curiosity about the rowdier parts of the human zoo.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Charles, canny and discerning, is a threat — and maybe a kindred spirit.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of kindred
Noun
  • Indigenous tribes adopted names including the drying rice moon, the falling leaves moon and the migrating moon.
    — Dharma Niles, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The initiatives pitted some of California’s most successful Native American tribes with gaming interests against gambling corporations, including online sports gaming companies DraftKings and FanDuel.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of tribe
Noun
  • In the week following West’s death, Sguros represented himself to a Medical Examiner’s Office investigator as a friend of the man and said West had no living relatives, according to the affidavit.
    — Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Seventy-one percent have close relatives in Cuba, including an overwhelming majority, 92%, of those who arrived in the United States after 2020.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of relative
Adjective
  • As has been its wont for many years now, over its three days the festival offers a lineup that mixes folk and roots (however understood) and non-folk artists.
    — Stuart Munro, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
  • The songwriter in question is Phoebe Kreutz, darling of the New York City anti-folk movement of the early ‘00s.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2022
Definition of folk
Noun
  • As the two clans battle it out on the field, regardless of who takes home the trophy Lexi may have already won at love.
    — Rachel LaBonte, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Looking forward to 2030, all eyes will turn to Bolsonaro clan ally Tarcísio de Freitas, who did not enter the presidential race and instead supported Flávio Bolsonaro.
    — David Unsworth , Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of clan
Adjective
  • These developments support the modernization of renewable energy systems and help drive national carbon-reduction goals.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2026
  • From union leader to president Lula rose to national prominence as the leader of a metalworkers' union that organized strikes that helped bring down Brazil's dictatorship in the 1980s.
    — Catherine Osborn, NPR, 26 Oct. 2026
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“Kin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kin. Accessed 31 Oct. 2026.

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