kin

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

kin BrE [kɪn] NAmE [kɪn] noun plural (old-fashioned or formal)
your family or your relatives
•Marriage between close kin is prohibited.
compare ↑kindred
see also ↑next of kin, see kith and kin at ↑kith

Word Origin:
[kin] Old 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’.

Example Bank:
•One of the drivers was fatally injured; his next of kin has been informed.
•Ties with extended kin vary from family to family.
•loyalty to blood kin
•I'm her next of kin.
•The form must be signed by next of kin.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  akin(p), blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal, kin(p), kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe, kinsperson, family