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akin
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Akin
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a·kin
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əˈkɪn
/
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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
Synonyms
2.
cognate; similar, analogous, comparable, parallel.
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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
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
akin
1550s, from phrase of kin; see
kin
.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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This educational approach is
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to academic fraud.
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For decades official propaganda had lambasted capitalism as
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