Noun They are her distant kin. invited all of his kith and kin to his graduation party
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Beyond these, solitary Joshuas beckon, perhaps forgotten and celibate, no mate or any other kin as far as the eye can see. Claire Vaye Watkins, Outside Online, 15 May 2017 To conduct a next-of-kin notification, a Calaveras County sheriff’s deputy arrived at about 10 a.m. on July 13 at a residence in the 9000 block of Camanche Parkway in Wallace, Stark said. Summer Linstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2022 In Indian Territory, what had been a set of highly varied, sometimes kin-adjacent forms of enslavement began to harden, and Indian attitudes and practices edged closer to those of white Americans. Philip Deloria, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022 Yet as far as sibling resemblance, the Artura seems closer kin to the 819 hp Ferrari 296 GTB. Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 16 July 2022 This was one of the last of the elephant kin in North America. Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022 Other artistic scions include Devin Allen, Deana Lawson, Dario Calmese, Derrick Adams and, perhaps Parks’s closest creative kin, Jamel Shabazz. Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 9 June 2022 Because if having antibiotics around encourages bacteria to evolve resistance, taking antibiotics away robs them of their superpower…and leaves them a little bit weaker than their non-resistant kin. Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 8 June 2022 By contrast, the French word for scarcity, rareté, has so many acoustic kin that an English rhymester could weep, with engagé, écarté, and retardé leading the pack. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022 See More
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