kin

CEFRC1

/kɪn/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Family members or relatives.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.

Examples

  • One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

  • Someone should notify the next of kin.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Persons of the same race or family; kindred.

  2. Race; family; breed; kind.

  3. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

More examples

In context

  • They are of kin to each other.

  • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.

  • It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”). Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kjønn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Faroese and Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, s...