Meaning of Kin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Race; family; breed; kind.
   countable, uncountable
2. A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.
   slang
3. Clipping of kinesiology.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial, uncountable
4. Clipping of Kinshasa.
   abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
5. Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
   collective, countable, uncountable
6. Someone who identifies as a certain fictional character.
   slang
7. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
   countable, uncountable
8. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.”

“Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.”

“Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.”

“Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.”

“If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.”

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