Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A male relative.
- noun A man sharing the same racial, cultural, or national background as another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man of the same race or family; one related by blood, or, more loosely, by marriage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man of the same race or family; one related by blood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
male relative .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a male relative
Etymologies
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Examples
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‘Whom do you call kinsman?’ asked old Martin sternly.
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Charles will come together, if they can but shake off wicked Everard, as we call a kinsman, whom Sir Charles has no mind to intro-duce to you, without your leave.
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'Whom do you call kinsman?' asked old Martin sternly.
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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"And that fat bearded one yonder, the Dogra whom you call my kinsman?
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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Yea, and I am sorry for Orestes, hapless youth, who is called my kinsman, to think that he should ever return to Argos and behold his sister's wretched marriage.
Electra 2008
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Now let Pylades take his maiden wife and bear her to his home in Achaea; also he must conduct thy so-called kinsman to the land of Phocis, and there reward him well.
Electra 2008
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Now let Pylades take his maiden wife and bear her to his home in Achaea; also he must conduct thy so-called kinsman to the land of Phocis, and there reward him well.
Electra 2008
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Yea, and I am sorry for Orestes, hapless youth, who is called my kinsman, to think that he should ever return to Argos and behold his sister's wretched marriage.
Electra 2008
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“They call my kinsman Ludovic with the Scar,” said Quentin.
Quentin Durward 2008
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Volumnia, in the course of her bird – like hopping about and pecking at papers, has alighted on a memorandum concerning herself in the event of “anything happening” to her kinsman, which is handsome compensation for an extensive course of reading and holds even the dragon Boredom at bay.
Bleak House 2007
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