Definition of "kin"

kin¹

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noun
countable and uncountable, plural kins or kin
1. Race; family; breed; kind.
2. (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
  Quotations
  You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.
  c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
  Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.
  2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, page 84
3. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
  Quotations
  Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
  2016, Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana, Women Workers in Urban India, page 280
4. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
  Quotations
  Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
  1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], page 248
adjective
not comparable
1. Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".

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verb
third-person singular simple present kins, present participle kinning, simple past and past participle kinned
1. (transitive, fandom slang) To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
noun
plural kins or kin
1. (fandom slang) A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.
2. (fandom slang, in the form (character name) kin) Someone who identifies with a certain fictional character.

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verb
1. Pronunciation spelling of can.
  Quotations
  [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.
  1959 January 5, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, page 4

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