Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Connection by heredity, marriage, or adoption; family relationship.
- noun Relationship by nature or character; affinity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Relationship; consanguinity; generic affinity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Family relationship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
relation orconnection byblood ,marriage oradoption - noun
relation orconnection bynature orcharacter
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character
- noun (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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"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
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Still, some evidence suggests that kinship is not the be-all and end-all it is often believed to be.
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Still, some evidence suggests that kinship is not the be-all and end-all it is often believed to be.
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Still, some evidence suggests that kinship is not the be-all and end-all it is often believed to be.
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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.
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Boehner said he feels a certain kinship with the outsider candidates, who remind him of himself 20 years ago.
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"I think all guitarists feel a certain kinship," he says, "but they're also a very odd breed."
Washington is once again taking pride of place in its classical guitar tradition
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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.
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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.
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