kinship
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kin·ship
(kĭn′shĭp′)n.
1. Connection by heredity, marriage, or adoption; family relationship.
2. Relationship by nature or character; affinity.
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kinship
(ˈkɪnʃɪp)n
1. blood relationship
2. the state of having common characteristics or a common origin
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kin•ship
(ˈkɪn ʃɪp)n.
1. the state of being kin; family relationship.
2. relationship by nature, qualities, etc.; affinity; likeness.
[1825–35]
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kinship
family relationship or other close tie or relationship.
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kinship
The way in which people are related by birth or through marriage in different societies.
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| Noun | 1. |  kinship - a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities"relation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together sympathy - a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other; "the two of them were in close sympathy" |
| 2. |  kinship - (anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoptionrelation - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together anthropology - the social science that studies the origins and social relationships of human beings phylogenetic relation, affinity - (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; "in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans" filiation, line of descent, lineage, descent - the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors affinity - (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship fatherhood, paternity - the kinship relation between an offspring and the father motherhood, maternity - the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother sisterhood, sistership - the kinship relation between a female offspring and the siblings brotherhood - the kinship relation between a male offspring and the siblings marital bed, marital relationship - the relationship between wife and husband |
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kinship
noun
1. relationship, kin, family ties, consanguinity, ties of blood, blood relationship the ties of kinship
2. similarity, relationship, association, bearing, connection, alliance, correspondence, affinity She evidently felt a sense of kinship with the woman.
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kin·ship
n. [family relationship] parentesco.
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