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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blood relative |
| Synonyms: | affinity, blood, clan, connection, consanguinity, cousin, extraction, family, folk, house, kindred, kinsfolk, kinship, kinsperson, kith, lineage, member, people, race, relation, relationship, sibling, stock, tribe |
| Notes: | your family or relatives are kin; your friends, neighbors, and acquaintances are kith |
| Main Entry: | connection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who aids another in achieving goal |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, agent, ally, associate, association, contact, friend, go-between, intermediary, kin, kindred, kinship, mentor, messenger, network, reciprocity, relation, relative, sponsor |
| Antonyms: | disconnection, gap, opening |
| Main Entry: | consanguinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family relationship |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, agnate, blood-relationship, brotherhood, cognate, connection, family tie, filiation, kin, kindred, kindredship, kinship, lineage, race, sisterhood, strain |
| Notes: | an affinity is a relationship by marriage and consanguinity is a blood relationship |
| Main Entry: | corresponding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | equivalent, matching |
| Synonyms: | agnate, akin, alike, analogous, answering, comparable, complementary, consonant, correlative, correspondent, coterminus, identical, interrelated, kin, kindred, like, parallel, reciprocal, similar, synonymous, undifferentiated |
| Antonyms: | differing, disparaging, dissimilar, mismatched, unlike |
| Main Entry: | descendant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in line of ancestry |
| Synonyms: | brood, child, children, chip off old block, get*, heir, issue, kin, offshoot, offspring, posterity, product, progeniture, progeny, scion, seed, spin-off |
| Antonyms: | ascendant, predecessor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | folk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's relations, acquaintances |
| Synonyms: | body politic, clan, community, confederation, culture group, ethnic group, family, general public, group, house, household, inhabitants, kin, kindred, lineage, masses, ménage, nation, nationality, people, population, proletariat, public, race, settlement, society, state, stock, tribe |
| Main Entry: | folks |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family |
| Synonyms: | brood, clan, horde, household, kin, parents, people, relatives, tribe |
| Main Entry: | house |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family, ancestry |
| Synonyms: | clan, dynasty, family tree, folk, folks, household, kin, kindred, line, lineage, ménage, race, stock, tradition, tribe |
| Notes: | a house is the building or structure in which one lives; home is the place one lives with the pleasant connotations or family ties included |
| Main Entry: | ilk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kind, type |
| Synonyms: | brand, class, classification, denomination, gender, kin, lot, order, persuasion, race, set, sort, species, variety |
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