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
- The choice is up to the next of kin.
- The award was presented to the next of kin.
- The recently dead have living kith and kin.
- Kith and kin are gathering together on holiday.
- I know the kin of the photographers who took them.
- The kin and assembling kith are pleased to see him at work.
- The guests are seated, with the next of kin closest to the front.
- The monastery became the spiritual focus of the tribe or kin group.
- The inscription on the headstone was the decision of the next of kin.
- The basis of the ethnocratic state is the Romanian soil and the Romanian kin.
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