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kin

Pronunciation: /kɪn/

The English word “kin” has 8 meanings listed here.

noun

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

adjective

  1. Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)

verb

  1. To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.

Etymology

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,…

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