kin
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Is kin a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of kin?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.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."collectivecountableuncountable
adj (English)
1. (uncommon) Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)Examples: "It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers."; "... and our feeling together had made us forget what-ever there'd been between us to forget about. And I ain't ever in my life felt so kin to folks. I felt kinner than I knew I was. That night, tired as I was, I walked[…]"; "How serenely Earth keeps on her business! […] Yielding powers to man's hand / While he burrows in her sand, / […] How kin is she to man, who sips / Nourishment with boasting lips, / Detached, but inalienably bound /To be suckled[…]"not-comparableuncommon
verb (English)
1. (transitive, fandom slang) To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.slangtransitive
noun (English)
1. (fandom slang) A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.slang
2. (fandom slang, in the form (character name) kin) Someone who identifies with a certain fictional character.slang
noun (English)
1. (colloquial) Clipping of kinesiology.abbreviationalt-ofclippingcolloquialuncountable
name (English)
1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Jin.alt-ofalternativeobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary