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| kin [ kin ] |
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1. family group: somebody's relatives as a group
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takes a plural verb
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2. blood relation: somebody related by blood
 He's not kin but we consider him one of the family.
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3. group or class: a member of a group that shares characteristics with another group
the starfish and its kin the sea urchin
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related: related to somebody
I'm kin to them through my grandmother.
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| [ Old English cyn(n)< Indo-European] |
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