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kith and kin

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kith and kin
friends and relatives; people known to someone. I was delighted to find all my kith and kin waiting for me at the airport to welcome me home. I sent cards to my kith and kin, telling them of my arrival.
See also: and, kin

kith and kin  (old-fashioned)
friends and relatives
Usage notes: Kith is an old-fashioned word which means friends.
They wanted to keep alive the memory of their kith and kin who had died in the war.
See also: and, kin


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The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel" afterwards, by marriage, Mary Folger, one of the old settlers of Nantucket, and the ancestress to a long line of Folgers and harpooneers --all kith and kin to noble Benjamin --this day darting the barbed iron from one side of the world to the other.
The universal aspiration with all its profound and melancholy meaning assailed heavily Razumov, who, amongst eighty millions of his kith and kin, had no heart to which he could open himself.
The kith and kin were there, and the whole respectability of the town besides.
 
 
 
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