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kin

/kɪn/ adjective C2
  1. Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.) · It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.· For quotations using this term, see Citations:kin.
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I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air—or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 2 · B2
"He had no kith nor kin—or, if he had, I never heard of it.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 75 · B2
It is understood that the next of kin is Mr.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 19 · C1
Mortimer for opening a grave without the consent of the next of kin because he dug up the Neolithic skull in the barrow on Long Down.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 98 · C1

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