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• According to anthropology, there are six basic patterns of kinship terminology or kin naming systems.From the entry anthropology
• Most Machiguenga lack personal names. Members of the same tribe are individuated using kin terminology.From the entry Machiguenga
• I feel a fierce loyalty to my kin.From the entry fierce
• Lord Bentley has passed away; notify the next of kin.From the entry next of kin
• Shall we inform the next of kin of his passing?From the entry next of kin
• Who looked after you when you ran out of kin entire?”2012, Lou Cameron, Stringer and the Hangman's Rodeo. From the entry mournsome
• In other words, polygamous societies differ markedly with regards to allowing kin, especially sisters, to become co-wives.2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: a cross-cultural analysis, page 32. From the entry co-wife
• "And"—Skeeter glared at Casper with killer eyes—"I kin tell you sumpthin' too, Mistah White Boy.2008, Tracy Price-Thompson, A Woman's Worth, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry seent
• Most commonly, people attempt to improve household status through the establishment of fictive kin links.2007, Xiyi Huang, “Network of Social Relationships in Resource Distribution”, in Power, Entitlement and Social Practice: Resource…. From the entry fictive kin
• Metrosexuals have opened the door to close kin such as technosexuals (basically, metrosexuals who like gadgets).2006, Business Venezuela, issues 275-279 (Venezuelan-American Chamber of Commerce). From the entry technosexual
• The least ah kin dae is take an interest in the bairn’s welfare.1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219. From the entry bairn
• "One must tread very lightly here: Everyone is kin to everyone else."1994, John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. From the entry cousiny
• Well-heeled tourists tuck into French cuisine at Cardin's elegant new Maxim's de Pékin.1983 November 28, Pico Iyer, “Battling "Spiritual Pollution"”, in Time. From the entry tuck into
• Do you observe in yourself or others kinæstheses serving as an aid ?1927, Linus Ward Kline, Frances Littleton Kline, Psychology by Experiment, page 248. From the entry kinæstheses
• As a consequence the inexperienceed introspectionist is likely to confuse kinæsthetic imagery with kinæsthetic sensations.1927, Robert Harvey Gault, Delton Thomas Howard, Outline of General Psychology, Longmans, Green and Co., page 262. From the entry kinæsthetic
• Why, he kin sing eny song and do ent cut-up antik eny of 'em kin.1912, Al. G. Field, Watch Yourself Go By. From the entry eny
• Grace made a lovely bride, surrounded by all her own and Harold's kith and kin.1905, Martha Finley, Elsie and Her Namesakes, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 55. From the entry kith and kin
• “I don't see how dat kin be,” mused the old man.1904 December 31, The Chicago News, “Why He Got No Letters”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry yo'
• De lawd woan gives you mo' dan you kin tek.2021 July 10, Judith Ann McDowell, Fated Memories. From the entry jes
• Political connections were also established when two sisters or other female kin each married an Amtmann, making them in-laws by marriage.2016, Katherine Brun, The Abbot and his Peasants: Territorial Formation in Salem from the Later Middle Ages to the Thirty Years War. From the entry Amtmann
• “I am Brackenwood kin to the Loren.2015 December 27, R. J. Confiant, “Chapter 9 Loren”, in The Crux: Lendaw Series:, Book 1, volume 1, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry treent
• And finally I thank my kin, who have seen past fortune and misfortune with the inconcussible evenness of love.2014, David van Dusen, The Space of Time, page xi. From the entry inconcussible
• Persons generally obtain fictive kin status by consistently contributing to the emotional or material needs of an individual over time.2011, Constance Dallas, “Fictive Kin Relationships”, in Martha Craft-Rosenberg, Shelley-Rae Pehler, editors, Encyclopedia of Family…. From the entry fictive kin
• If there's a solution that's gadgetical, please let us know.I know yore time costs money and we kin pay.2010, Roger Lee Scott, Letters from the Hills. From the entry pridesome
• Animal social behaviours, such as altruism, now yielded to genocentric theories such as kin selection and reciprocal altruism.2006, Robin Headlam Wells, Johnjoe McFadden, Human nature: fact and fiction, page 16. From the entry genocentric
• This compensation was paid to the victim's kin.2005, Jean A. Stuntz, Hers, His, and Theirs: Community Property Law in Spain and Early Texas, →ISBN. From the entry wergeld
• Members of an ʻohana may or may not be blood kin; they are related by virtue of sharing sustenance and support.1997, Judith Modell, “(Not) In My Back Yard: Housing the Homeless in Hawaiʻi”, in Jan Rensel, Margaret Rodman, editors, Home in the…. From the entry ohana
• I won’t let those thieving, murdering leeches who call themselves our kin get their slimey hands on you.1996, Hannah Howell, “Wild Roses”, in Unconquered, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 342. From the entry slimey
• Remove the rhododendra and all their foul kin from the windows of my temple, and shut them up in a bin.1996 December 5, Mark Buda, “The Gombril Shamir (40)”, in talk.bizarre (Usenet), message-ID <585b72$k0e@clarknet.clark.net>. From the entry rhododendra
• One touch of doglore makes the whole world kin.1928, Scribner's magazine: Volume 84. From the entry doglore
• Surely all those abominable rebels must see that their obstinacy and treachery redounds upon their own kith and kin.1916, Baroness Orczy, Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders. From the entry kith and kin
• I kin lick anny man in the gang."1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook. From the entry anny
• “I kin take him from right here ’atwixt his eyes,” said Jenks softly, and tapped his rifle significantly.1909, Zane Grey, chapter 18, in The Last Trail, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 218. From the entry atwixt
• Moreover, he was of gentle kin, and she was a poor lass biding in a cot house with an ill-reputed mother.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide. From the entry reputed

Meaning of kin

1. noun Race; family; breed; kind.
2. noun Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
3. noun One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.

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Questions about kin in a sentence

How do you use kin in a sentence?

Kin is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.”

What is a short sentence with kin?

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:kin.”

What does kin mean?

Kin means race; family; breed; kind.