Noun
They are her distant kin.
invited all of his kith and kin to his graduation party
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Noun
Like its bigger kin, the PD163QT stacks two panels on their long edges and can be used in landscape or portrait orientation.—John Burek, PC Magazine, 18 May 2025 Indeed, both Davis and Roberts can't wait for audiences to pick up on the small nods to the various personality traits and quirks that Jamie and Claire have picked up from their kin.—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 May 2025
Adjective
And non-kin pairs were more likely to engage in this genital-to-genital contact than kin.—New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2025 The Secret Service was not playing to get in that motherf–kin’ stadium.—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for kin
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English, from Old English cynn; akin to Old High German chunni race, Latin genus birth, race, kind, Greek genos, Latin gignere to beget, Greek gignesthai to be born
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