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kin¹
- /kɪn/
- [k̟ʰɪn]
Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
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”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kjønn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Faroese and 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”).
noun kins · kin
- Race; family; breed; kind. the starfish and its kin the sea urchin
- Persons of the same race or family; kindred. c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.
- One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively. Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
- Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent. Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
adjective
- Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.) It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
kin²
- /kɪn/
- [k̟ʰɪn]
Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).
noun kins
- Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”).qin Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.
kin³
- /kɪn/
- [k̟ʰɪn]
Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
Clipping of fictionkin.
verb kins · kinning · kinned
- To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
noun kins · kin
- A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.
- Someone who identifies as a certain fictional character.
kin⁴
- /kɪn/
- [k̟ʰɪn]
Rhymes with -ɪn
noun kins
- Alternative form of k'in.k'in
kin⁵
- /kɪn/
- [k̟ʰɪn]
Rhymes with -ɪn
verb
- Pronunciation spelling of can.can [Owl:] Oh I ain't stealin' this dime... I just took it for safe-keepin'. [Turtle:] Ain't much you kin do with it—'cept make a phone call.
kin⁶
- /kɪn/
- [k̟ʰɪn]
Rhymes with -ɪn
noun
- Clipping of kinesiology.kinesiology
Kin⁷
Where it comes from
An irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 晉 /晋 (Jìn).
proper noun
- Alternative form of Jin.Jin
Kin⁸
Where it comes from
See Kinshasa
proper noun
- Clipping of Kinshasa.Kinshasa
