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View synonyms for kinswoman

kinswoman

[ kinz-woom-uhn ]

noun

, plural kins·wom·en.
  1. a female relative.
  2. a woman of the same nationality or ethnic group.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of kinswoman1

1350–1400; Middle English; kin, 's 1, woman, modeled on kinsman

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Example Sentences

So home, where I found Mrs. Lodum speaking with my wife about her kinswoman which is offered my wife to come as a woman to her.

Or, what more likely than that these ignorant and half-witted people should seek to manage an afflicted kinswoman by violence?

Art thou sure she has not been in her time maid of honour to Queen Mary, our kinswoman, of redhot memory?

Peter Sherringham came humanely to his kinswoman's assistance.

But he was a sportsman—particularly did he wish to impress his kinswoman.

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