kinship

kinship
n
1. relationship, kin, relation, consanguinity, filiation, apparentation; blood, blood ties, family ties, flesh and blood; common ancestry, ancestry, descent, lineage, patrilineage, matrilineage, parentage; cognation, agnation, enation; propinquity, nearness, closeness; extraction, stock, breed, strain, kind, stirps, line, sept.
2. affinity, bearing, association; correspondence, agreement, concordance, accordance; parallelism, equivalence, symmetry, congeniality, harmony

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  • Kinship — Kin ship, n. Family relationship. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • kinship — I noun affiliation, affinity, association, bond, brotherhood, closeness, cognation, connection, consanguinity, family, family connection, kindredship, link, propinquity, relation, relationship, tie II index affiliation (bloodline), affinity… …   Law dictionary

  • kinship — (n.) by 1764, from KIN (Cf. kin) + SHIP (Cf. ship). A more pure word than relationship, which covers the same sense but is a hybrid …   Etymology dictionary

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  • kinship — ► NOUN 1) blood relationship. 2) a sharing of characteristics or origins …   English terms dictionary

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  • Kinship — For other uses, see Kinship (disambiguation). Relationships …   Wikipedia

  • kinship — [[t]kɪ̱nʃɪp[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Kinship is the relationship between members of the same family. The ties of kinship may have helped the young man find his way in life. ...her kinship to the English King. 2) N UNCOUNT If you feel kinship with… …   English dictionary

  • kinship — kin|ship [ˈkınʃıp] n 1.) [U + with] literary a family relationship ▪ the ties of kinship 2.) [singular, U] a strong connection between people →↑rapport kinship between ▪ The sense of kinship between the two men is surprising. ▪ He felt a kinship …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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