kin

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
发音 kĭn

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Race; family; breed; kind. countable,uncountable
    — the starfish and its kin the sea urchin
  2. Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”). alt-of,alternative
    — Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.
  3. A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to. slang
  4. Alternative form of k'in. alt-of,alternative
  5. Clipping of kinesiology. abbreviation,alt-of,clipping,colloquial,uncountable
  6. Persons of the same race or family; kindred. collective,countable,uncountable
    — c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.
  7. Someone who identifies as a certain fictional character. slang
  8. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively. countable,uncountable
    — Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
  9. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent. countable,uncountable
    — Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
动词 v.
  1. To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being. slang,transitive
  2. Pronunciation spelling of can. alt-of,pronunciation-spelling
    — [Owl:] Oh I ain't stealin' this dime... I just took it for safe-keepin'. [Turtle:] Ain't much you kin do with it—'cept make a phone call.
形容词 adj.
  1. Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.) not-comparable,uncommon
    — It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.

词形变化

kins plural kin plural kins plural kins present,singular,third-person kinning participle,present kinned participle,past kinned past kins plural kin plural kins plural

词汇关系

衍生词
akin alkin erfkin fictive kin kind kindom kindred kinfolk king kinhood Kinism Kinist kinless kinly kinomics kin selection kinsfolk kinship kinslayer kinsman kinsperson kin state kinstate kinswoman kinterm kintype kissing kin kith and kin mankind next of kin nonkin otakukin otherkin totem kin
相关词
kith clan

词源

词源 1
From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).
Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kjønn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Faroese and Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).
词源 2
Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).
词源 3
Clipping of fictionkin.
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