kin
IPA: kˈɪn
noun
- Race; family; breed; kind.
- (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
- One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
- Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
- (fandom slang) A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.
- (fandom slang, in the form (character name) kin) Someone who identifies with a certain fictional character.
- Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”) [(music) Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly the seven-stringed instrument more specifically called the guqin.]
- Alternative form of k'in [A day, in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar.]
- (colloquial) Short for kinesiology. [(medicine) The study of body movement.]
- (obsolete) Alternative form of Jin. [A river (晉水) in Shanxi Province, China, emptying into the Fen River.]
- Clipping of Kinshasa. [The capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), in the western part of the country on the Congo River.]
verb
- (transitive, fandom slang) To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
- Pronunciation spelling of can. [(auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.]
adjective
- Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
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Examples of "kin" in Sentences
- Postulation of a link between death and helping one's kin is a non-sequitur.
- But for a growing number of adult children, reconnecting with kin is more than just a holiday affair.
- Occupy Wall Street is the long-term kin to the festival experience held throughout the country for much of the year.
- His prayer is that this military government long may live as such to train the great mass which he calls kin into a synthetic whole.
- Ef Doctor Mac kin save Lou's life -- an 'he _kin_ -- yo'd be a murderer, -- yes, a murderer uv yo'r own flesh an' blood, ter forbid him. "
- Knowing this, he went on: 'O Paṭācārā, to one passing to another world no child nor other kin is able to be a shelter or a hiding-place or a refuge.
- II. iii.27 (53,7) Two such opposed foes encamp them still] [W: opposed kin] _Foes_ may be the right reading, or _kings_, but I think _kin_ can hardly be admitted.
- This means that the difference between keen and kin is that in the former the vowel “involves considerable tensing of the vocal apparatus” (Roca and Johnson p. 182).
- Payments for downloads are made through Google Checkout. im still having troubles with my kin one it feels like everything on my kin is mashed up together but i still like it:)
- Well, shes no kin o yours, nor much acquaintance as Ive ever heared of, said Mrs. Glegg, who always cried just as much as was proper when anything happened to her own kin, but not on other occasions.
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