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# kin

«kin» in Mova's school dictionary: **your family and relatives** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (kin — plural only); adjective (kin — formal, «related»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Kin means your family and relatives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kin/#m1)

2) Next of kin is your closest relative, often named on forms for emergencies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kin/#m2)

3) (old-fashioned) Kin can mean people or animals of the same kind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kin/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and history, kings and clans protected their kin; on forms, «next of kin»; in science, related animals; phrases: kith and kin (friends and family), next of kin.

### examples

- The hospital called his next of kin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kin/#x1)
- They gathered all their kin for the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kin/#x2)
- Kith and kin means friends and relatives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kin/#x3)
- Wolves protect their kin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kin/#x4)
- She is my kin; we share a great-grandmother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kin/#x5)

### note

Takes a plural verb: «My kin are coming». Not «a kin». Related: kinship, kinsfolk. Old-fashioned and formal words in many uses.

### In the corpora

- ["kIn" means horse, and "kOnyk" means pony or little horse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/16/)
- [None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.516/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.