noun
Meaning 1
A female relative.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
kinswoman
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noun
Meaning 2
a female relative
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: relative, relation
Narrower terms: aunt, auntie, aunty, female sibling, niece
History
Etymology
From Middle English kynneswomman; equivalent to kin + -s- + -woman.
Across languages
Translations
20 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Danish: frænke — female relative
- Finnish: naispuolinen sukulainen — female relative
- Georgian: ნათესავი — female relative
- German: Verwandte — female relative
- German: Angehörige — female relative
- German: Landsfrau — female relative
- German: Landsmännin — female relative
- Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌾𐍉 (niþjō) — female relative
- Greek: συγγενής (syngenís) — female relative
- Ancient Greek: συγγενής (sungenḗs) — female relative
- Hungarian: nőrokon — female relative
- Icelandic: frænka — female relative
- Middle English: mowe — female relative
- Middle English: kynneswomman — female relative
- Norwegian: frenke — female relative
- Old Norse: frænka — female relative
- Polish: krewna — female relative
- Russian: ро́дственница (ródstvennica) — female relative
- Swedish: fränka — female relative
- Ukrainian: ро́дичка (ródyčka) — female relative