Kin
A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.
A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
Relatives; persons of the same family or race.
Of the same nature or kind; kinder.
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Kin Quotations
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Oscar Wilde
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare
Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
Honore De Balzac
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
Anna Quindlen
It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
Al Sharpton
Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Tryon Edwards
You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.
Martha Reeves
My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Solomon Schechter
Kin Translations
kin in German is Verwandschaft, Sippe
kin in Latin is semen-inis
kin in Norwegian is slekt
kin in Spanish is parientes
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