kin

noun
🔊/kɪn/
🔊/kɪn/
[plural] (old-fashioned or formal)Idioms
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  1. your family or your relatives(统称)家属,亲属,亲戚
    • Marriage between close kin is prohibited.禁止近亲结婚。
    compare kindred see also next of kin
    Extra Examples
    • Ties with extended kin vary from family to family.与大家庭成员的关系因家庭而异。
    • loyalty to blood kin对血亲的忠诚
    Topics Family and relationshipsc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • close
    • near
    • blood
    kin + noun
    • group
    • network
    • relationships
    preposition
    • between kin
    phrases
    • next of kin
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    Word OriginOld English cynn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kunne, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘give birth to’, shared by Greek genos and Latin genus ‘race’.