kin : Idioms & Phrases

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kin group

  • noun group of people related by blood or marriage
    clan; tribe; kindred; kin; kinship group.
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kissing kin

  • noun a more or less distant relative; familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss
    kissing cousin.
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Kith and kin

  • kindred more or less remote.
Webster 1913

matrilineal kin

  • noun one related on the mother's side
    matrilineal sib; matrisib; matrikin; enate.
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next of kin

  • noun the person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given person
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patrilineal kin

  • noun one related on the father's side
    agnate; patrilineal sib; patrikin; patrisib.
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