Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural Relatives; kindred.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Relatives; kindred; kin; kinsfolk; persons of the same family or closely related families.
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- noun US, also in plural
Relatives ,relations .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun people descended from a common ancestor
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his kinfolk to eat bread.
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Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his kinfolk to eat bread.
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Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his kinfolk to eat bread.
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their kinfolk is a subject matter expert, sigh ….
Boy Genius Report 4gtester 2010
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Entry tags: kinfolk, words like violence, you promised me poems seven lies multiplied by seven multiplied by seven again
intertribal: seven lies multiplied by seven multiplied by seven again intertribal 2010
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Though a few women penned their observations of non-European societies prior to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (most notably Lady Wortley Montagu), this new wave of lady explorers traveled globe not as mere appendages to their male kinfolk, but as scholars in their own right.
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Some kinfolk are coming over for breakfast and I haven't even caught any fish yet.
Portland "ugly" and "minor-league" to Sports Illustrated (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Afterwards, waving smiley good-byes as the screen door slammed inside the last manure-footed fly of the season, we would pretend this was the most enjoyable and relaxing sojourn ever undertaken by the Midwest kinfolk; who now are worn out, corn-fed, under-financed, and facing several hundred miles of back-breaking, exhaust-choking, bug-splattering, road-hog crowded highways returning home.
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He uses a wild arsenal of weapons and body parts to protect humans from the schemes of his kinfolk, aided by his father, a disembodied eyeball.
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He uses a wild arsenal of weapons and body parts to protect humans from the schemes of his kinfolk, aided by his father, a disembodied eyeball.
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