| kin | | |
| n. (person) | 1. family, kin, kinsperson | a person having kinship with another or others.; "he's kin"; "he's family" |
| ~ affine | (anthropology) kin by marriage. |
| ~ relative, relation | a person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
| n. (group) | 2. clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage. |
| ~ social group | people sharing some social relation. |
| ~ mishpachah, mishpocha | (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends).; "she invited the whole mishpocha" |
| ~ family unit, family | primary social group; parents and children.; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" |
| ~ folks | your parents.; "he wrote to his folks every day" |
| ~ family tree, genealogy | successive generations of kin. |
| ~ totem | a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object. |
| ~ tribes of israel, twelve tribes of israel | twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob. |
| ~ relative, relation | a person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
| ~ clan member, clansman, clanswoman | a member of a clan. |
| ~ tribesman | someone who lives in a tribe. |
| adj. | 3. akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin | related by blood. |
| ~ related | connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage. |
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