what is the meaning of kin?

Answer 1

Your kin are your relatives.

"The kinfolk said, 'Jed, move away from there', so we loaded up the truck and we moved to Beverly. Hills, that is. Swimming pools. Movie stars."

1. a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk.
2. family relationship or kinship.
3. a group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a family, clan, tribe, or race.
4. a relative or kinsman.
5. someone or something of the same or similar kind: philosophy and its kin, theology.
–adjective
6. of the same family; related; akin.
7. of the same kind or nature; having affinity.
—Idiom
8. of kin, of the same family; related; akin: Although their surnames are identical they are not of kin.

Kith and Kin?
Kith is obsolete except in the alliterative phrase kith and kin, which originally meant "native land and people" and first appeared about 1377 in Piers Plowman. Kith comes from the Old English noun cȳth, "knowledge; known, familiar country; acquaintances, friends." Cȳth in turn comes from the Germanic noun *kunthithō, a derivative of *kunthaz, "known." Germanic *kunthaz was the past participle of a verb *kunnan, "to know, know how," which became cunnan in Old English. The first person singular of this verb, can, is alive and well today, as is what was originally the verbal noun and adjective of cunnan, namely cunning, first appearing in the 14th century. Germanic *kunthaz itself survived in the Old English adjective cūth, "known, familiar," a word that became obsolete in southern English by 1600, but has survived in its negative, uncouth. Modern English couth is actually a jocular back-formation introduced by Max Beerbohm in 1896.

Answer 2

kin

adjective
1. related by blood [syn: akin]

noun
1. a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"
2. group of people related by blood or marriage

In other words--your relatives. It is also short for "kindred"


Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)

kin·dred /ˈkɪndrɪd/ Pronunciation Key - Pronunciation [kin-drid]
–noun 1. a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
2. a group of persons related to another; family, tribe, or race.


kin·dred (kĭn'drĭd) Pronunciation Key
n.
A group of related persons, as a clan or tribe.
(used with a pl. verb) A person's relatives; kinfolk.

adj.
Of the same ancestry or family: kindred clans.
Having a similar or related origin, nature, or character: kindred emotions.

3. relationship by birth or descent, or sometimes by marriage; kinship.
4. natural relationship; affinity.

Answer 3

kin
adjective
1. related by blood [syn: akin]

noun
1. a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"
2. group of people related by blood or marriage

kith and kin meaning friends and relatives.

Answer 4

People related to you, even all those distant cousins you may never see, as well as their parents, their off-spring... kin can cover quite a lot of family.
I wonder about the word "kith"... have you heard that phrase, "kith and kin" ? I'm not even sure of the spelling. Ah, well... it's all in the family, or at least in the circle of friends and family, I'd say. It sounds very homey to me.

Answer 5

Kin:
As a noun:
1. a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk.
2. family relationship or kinship.
3. a group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a family, clan, tribe, or race.
4. a relative or kinsman.
5. someone or something of the same or similar kind.

As an adjective:
1. of the same family; related; akin.
2. of the same kind or nature; having affinity.

Hope that answers your question! :)

Answer 6

Kin is when you are related to someone through blood or marriage.If you speak of someone being your kin you are saying hey are your family,

Answer 7

dearfrnd,
Kin is a relation between 2 person it may Be blood relation 0r 3rd blood relative relationsok
--big boss

Answer 8

it's so simple kin=k-kind
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n-nice

Answer 9

relatives; family; kinfolk

Answer 10

a relative or something that is in common.