Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Knowledge; information.
- n. Education; in the plural, manners.
- n. One's friends or relatives collectively: now obsolete, except in the phrase kith and kin, one's own people and kindred.
- n. One's native land; home; country.
Wiktionary
- n. friends and acquaintances
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Acquaintance; kindred.
WordNet 3.0
- n. your friends and acquaintances
Examples
“I will ask what we may teach one another about what we might do today and tomorrow not to repeat the bloody relationship that gave birth to Fort Hare and a South African Berlin, and gave birth to common reference points that we should all visit to understand what they did, whom we call kith and kin.”
“In an organization his kith are the key players or middle managers.”
“I just mention this, in case any of you out there are blessed with the kind of kith and kin susceptible to suggestions for good gifts to give a writer for any major holiday that might be coming up.”
“They acknowledge and make themselves accountable to sober kith-or the cocoon of caring people who surround them (for more information about "kith").”
“Our word "kith," in the proverb "kith and kin," means persons of our acquaintance.] [Footnote 355: Bib.”
“Nor to the Soviet Empire that we faced down patiently over half a century, nor to the great British Empire from which we broke free in a long and taxing struggle that affords a better picture of our kith and kin than any the world may have today of who we are and of what we are capable.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page: Sept. 12, 2001
“I hope you enjoy it with kith, kin and of course the WPIX Yule Log.”
“God bless America, and all who lost kin or kith on Sept. 11, 2001.”
The Huffington Post: Robin Koerner: A Decade After 9/11: Time to Choose to be America Again?
“For more than four decades, her New York kith and kin would drop by on St. Patrick's Day after checking out the over-long parade.”
“And as with all matters important to their male kith and kin – and eligible gentlemen – the general social season fit itself around the Scottish one.”
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kmocol01 numerous references to Arthurian legend in both definitions and examples, so yeah, instant love Nov 21, 2009