[kin] 
| 1. | a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk. |
| 2. | family relationship or kinship. |
| 3. | a group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a family, clan, tribe, or race. |
| 4. | a relative or kinsman. |
| 5. | someone or something of the same or similar kind: philosophy and its kin, theology. |
| 6. | of the same family; related; akin. |
| 7. | of the same kind or nature; having affinity. |
| 8. | of kin, of the same family; related; akin: Although their surnames are identical they are not of kin. |
