Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Connection by blood, marriage, or adoption; family relationship.
- n. Relationship by nature or character; affinity.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Relationship; consanguinity; generic affinity.
Wiktionary
- n. relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption
- n. relation or connection by nature or character
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Family relationship.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
- n. (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Etymologies
- From kin + -ship. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I think all guitarists feel a certain kinship," he says, "but they're also a very odd breed.”
“Boehner said he feels a certain kinship with the outsider candidates, who remind him of himself 20 years ago.”
The Washington Post: The rise, fall and rise of John Boehner
“And again, I find myself in kinship with him, because in my focus on religious, philosophical, and spiritual horror, I'm walking an analogous line between the paradisiacal potentials of these things and the nightmarish ones.”
Dark Awakenings and Cosmic Horror : The Lovecraft News Network
“Still, some evidence suggests that kinship is not the be-all and end-all it is often believed to be.”
“So reasoning, he felt his soul go forth in kinship with that august company, that multitude whose gaze was forever upon the arras of infinity.”
“I feel a certain kinship with Mr. Garner's sentiment; the way I learned to be a playwright was from hours spent -- when I should have been doing my homework -- reading plays.”
“Gimmickry, supernatural and otherwise, blunts what could have been an incisive inquiry into the mysteries and frustrations of too-close kinship from the talented Niffenegger" - Kirkus Reviews”
“This kinship is fundamental to the tradition of memory-training; inventive thought could not occur without a careful inventory of the materials of experience within the memory.”
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
“In school, I started writing stories that I think shared a certain kinship with my father's stories in that they gave me a way to imagine myself in the world.”
“This afternoon, over lunch with the latest copies various San Miguel de Allende real estate magazines, I felt a certain kinship with the old men who drool over what aren't the articles in Penthouse and Playboy.”
House Lust in San Miguel de Allende.....and, of course, elsewhere
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘kinship’.
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POL - What is Mitt talking about?
Key terms from Mitt Romney's election campaign
good and generous..., hard fought election, go back to work, optimistic and po..., confident in the ..., optimism, uniquely American, nation of immigrants, want a better life, life in that plac..., pursuit of the ri..., richness of this ... and 369 more...
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•Things That Escape When You Remove t...
Its proximate cause is among the comments on aloot, but see also the open list Things That Get Way More Fun When You Add a "G" to Them.
aloot, gun ho, poo stick, bunhole, underdo, leapfro, lacier, bader, kinship, sonwriter, litter, loophobia and 74 more...
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The Wordie Armada
friendship, worship, relationship, librarianship, airship, censorship, apprenticeship, fellowship, partisanship, brinksmanship, championship, citizenship and 24 more...
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Unfamiliar Words
dank, refrain, hostage, frigid, warden, atrocious, squirm, kinship, riot, counterfeit, stamped, scaffolding and 59 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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africasunsets's list
serendipity, fragrance, glamour, smitten, nourish, lavish, luxury, wicked, gem, daring, soothe, fantasy and 192 more...
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Wharton, Edith. Age of Innocence. 1920
A list of difficult words for L2-12 learners.
Faust, erection, metropolitan, splendor, shabby, conservatives, cherished, inconvenient, clung, acoustics, coupe, scramble and 261 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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new romantics
desire, fondness, devotion, concubine, alluring, affection, palpitations, enamored, osculate, liason, bedfellows, seduction and 20 more...
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trombrarian's Words
buttress, yawp, ajar, tawdry, tornadic, tacitly, murfle, winkapeep, eager, radial, mnemonic, eccentric and 47 more...
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relative
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