Synonym: family. Similar words: kind, king, akin, kind of, kindle, liking, joking, taking. Meaning: [kɪn] n. 1. a person having kinship with another or others 2. group of people related by blood or marriage. adj. related by blood.
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61. A regal member of the mint family, basil has some of the same aromatic characteristics as its kin.
62. The police will not release the dead man's name until his next of kin have been informed.
63. Urgent plans were being made at the London office to fly next of kin to Katmandu tomorrow.
64. This observation, they believe, throws doubt on the importance of kin selection.
65. Can we discern contemporary patterns of shared accommodation between kin which might also be the result of such pressures?
66. Naval husbands, she said, were loyal to their shipmates ahead of kith, kin or country.
67. Is the doctor under a duty to respect treatment decisions proposed by relatives or next of kin?
68. Most of them suggest, however, that most members of families in Britain have some contact with their wider kin.
69. What are the consequences of these changes for the kin networks of the current generation of older people?
70. Marriage partners will feel obligations to their wider kin which may even transcend those they feel towards each other.
71. How important is the exchange element in structuring kin support?
72. However, the image of modern families as isolated and inward-looking does not only extend to relationships with kin.
73. Such a system, as he saw, minimized the differences which might otherwise be drawn between distant and close kin.
74. Are there boundaries to what is considered reasonable for kin to provide?
75. A related misconception is that kin selection can operate only if an animal can recognize its degree of relationship to others.
76. In-laws Relationships with in-laws form a special category of kin relationships.
77. Thus high office remains accessible to a relatively wide range of royal kin and commoners wield significant power over the succession.
78. She had done her best for Craig, now it was up to his own kin to sort his problems out for him.
79. This was because according to Morgan kin terms lag behind.
80. In relationships between siblings or between other kin, the two-way principle seems to be the foundation of support structures.sentence dictionary
81. Zoologists can with greater justice call humans fish, since fish are far closer kin to humans than they are to lobsters.
82. Man may well have spent large portions of the last several million years living in small kin groups.
83. Art escaped his kin to expand his horizons, so he knows exactly what drove Mark away.
84. Mice, for example, excrete scents in their urine that enable females to avoid their close kin.
85. The data produced by Timaeus suggest that kin support has a potential to increase rather than to decline.
86. This is true for relations with wider kin but is also the case for friendships.
87. Marriage with close kin is generally forbidden in most societies and so, commonly, is marriage with people of dissimilar culture.
88. It supplements care by kin, but families continue to provide the bulk of domiciliary care.
89. Are the rather variable and unpredictable patterns of kin support, which I identified in chapter 1, of recent origin?
90. The corollary is that they have accepted a range of obligations to provide support for non-household kin.