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kinfolk

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

Relatives, relations.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

people descended from a common ancestor

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: family, family line, folk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

Narrower terms: people, homefolk, house, dynasty, name, gens

History

Etymology

From kin + folk.

Across languages

Translations

14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Belarusian: радня́ (radnjá) — Relatives
  • Bulgarian: роднини (rodnini) — Relatives
  • German: Verwandte — Relatives
  • German: Verwandtschaft — Relatives
  • Greek: σόι (sói) — Relatives
  • Greek: συγγενολόι (syngenolói) — Relatives
  • Louisiana Creole: paren — Relatives
  • Polish: krewni — Relatives
  • Russian: родня́ (rodnjá) — Relatives
  • Russian: ро́дственники (ródstvenniki) — Relatives
  • Russian: ро́дичи (ródiči) — Relatives
  • Russian: соро́дичи (soródiči) — Relatives
  • Ukrainian: рідня́ (ridnjá) — Relatives
  • Ukrainian: ро́дичі (ródyči) — Relatives