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[uh-kin]
adjective
1.
of kin; related by blood (usually used predicatively): cousins who were too closely akin for marriage.
2.
allied by nature; having the same properties: Something akin to vertigo was troubling her.
3.
having or showing an affinity; kindred: They are emotionally but not intellectually akin.

Origin:
1580–90; see a-2, kin


2. cognate; similar, analogous, comparable, parallel.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example Sentences
  • And in some ways it's akin to choosing between his children.
  • These great, lumbering creatures of the past seem more akin to fantasy than fiction.
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akin (əˈkɪn)
 
adj
1.  related by blood; of the same kin
2.  (often foll by to) having similar characteristics, properties, etc

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akin
1550s, from phrase of kin; see kin.
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