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, she’s no kin o’ yours, nor much acquaintance as I’ve 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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