Word.ws English Dictionary

kithfolk

kithfolk noun: those of a kith or clan.

Noun

kithfolk pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) those of a kith or clan
    • Those that were kith-folk (?) to the great devil,1860, Philological Society (London), Transactions of the Philological Society, digitized edition, Wiley-Blackwell, published 2011, page 37
    • They seem instinctively to prefer their kith-folk of Russian Karelia.1940, Eugenics Pamphlets, Issues 12-59, digital edition, Eugenics Society of Northern California, published 2008, page 46

Examples of kithfolk in a sentence

  • In the beginning there was one adult male and one adult female, with no kinfolk or kithfolk, and no culture.1974, Albert Silversteen, Human Communication: Theoretical Explorations, →ISBN, page 205:
  • Maybe she, being smart as kithfolk usually were, could get a well-paid position in a guild or in the vicarial bureaucracy.1999, Poul Anderson, Starfarers, →ISBN, page 81:
  • After that, he forced himself to think of the Wërgas kithfolk rather than beasts.2015, Robert Stanek, Guardians & Dragons, →ISBN:

Origin of kithfolk

From kith + folk.

Questions about kithfolk

What does kithfolk mean?
Kithfolk means those of a kith or clan.
How do you use kithfolk in a sentence?
In the beginning there was one adult male and one adult female, with no kinfolk or kithfolk, and no culture.
What part of speech is kithfolk?
Kithfolk is a noun.

Words near kithfolk in the dictionary

  1. Kithcart
  2. Kithcarts
  3. kithe
  4. kithed
  5. kithes
  6. kithfolk
  7. kithing
  8. Kithira
  9. kithless
  10. kithlessness
  11. kiths

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: kithfolk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “kithfolk.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/kithfolk. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.