- your family or your relatives
- Marriage between close kin is prohibited.
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsc2- Ties with extended kin vary from family to family.
- loyalty to blood kin
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- close
- near
- blood
- …
- group
- network
- relationships
- …
- between kin
- next of kin
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’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See kin in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee kin in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishkith and kin
- (old-fashioned) friends and relativesTopics Family and relationshipsc2More Like This Alliteration in idiomsAlliteration in idioms
- belt and braces
- black and blue
- born and bred
- chalk and cheese
- chop and change
- done and dusted
- down and dirty
- in dribs and drabs
- eat somebody out of house and home
- facts and figures
- fast and furious
- first and foremost
- forgive and forget
- hale and hearty
- hem and haw
- kith and kin
- mix and match
- part and parcel
- puff and pant
- to rack and ruin
- rant and rave
- risk life and limb
- short and sweet
- signed and sealed
- spick and span
- through thick and thin
- this and that
- top and tail
- tried and tested
- wax and wane
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