kinsman

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Your kinsman is an honourable man, a marshal and an ambassador of France, a cousin of the Duke of Brittany, a reigning sovereign.

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  1. noun A male relative.
  2. noun A man sharing the same racial, cultural, or national background as another.

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  • And indeed the very word imports this; Goel_,(300) a redeemer and kinsman, passing under one word: so Job, “I know that my Redeemer,” or my kinsman, “liveth:” and because our kinsman, therefore most interested in our redemption; for, for this end he became partaker of flesh and blood with the children, that he might destroy our greatest enemy, Satan, and redeem us, Heb. ii. 14. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • The gregarious habits of our continental neighbours are more familiar to him than to his insular kinsman, and he is not tormented like the latter by the perpetual fear of failing, either in what is due to himself or to others. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
  • One who claims our father's lands Our distant kinsman, and our nearest foe Ulr. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
  • A fat old kinsman--or woman--was seated in a hollow some distance farther on. —  The Eagle Cliff
  • North of this border ranges the "Indio bravo;" south of it dwells his degenerate and conquered kinsman, the "Indio manso"--not in the "tents," but in the towns of his Spanish conqueror--the former, free as the prairie wind; the latter, yoked to a condition of "peon" vassalage, with chains as strong as those of slavery itself. —  The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse
 

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nephew ·  brother-in-law ·  countryman ·  cousin ·  son-in-law ·  grandson ·  benefactor ·  kinsfolk ·  consort ·  vassal ·  uncle ·  grandfather
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Etymologies (1)

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  1. from Middle English kynnesman; from kin's, possessive of kin, + man.
 

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/ˈkɪnzmən/
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