Definition of KIN

kin

Plural: kin, kins

Noun

  • One's relatives; people connected by blood or marriage.
  • a person having kinship with another or others
    • "he's kin"
  • group of people related by blood or marriage
  • Race; family; breed; kind.
  • 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.
  • Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”).
  • A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.
  • Someone who identifies with a certain fictional character.
  • Alternative form of k'in.
  • Clipping of kinesiology.

Adjective Satellite

  • related by blood

Adj

  • Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)

Verb

  • To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
  • Pronunciation spelling of can.

Examples

  • He consulted his KIN for help, but they were no better at Words With Friends than he was.
  • It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).
Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).

Synonyms

akin, blood-related, clan, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, family, kin group, kindred, kinship group, kinsperson, tribe

Scrabble Score: 7

kin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
kin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
kin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

kin: valid Words With Friends Word