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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sister or brother |
| Synonyms: | brother, kin, kinfolk, relative, sib, sister |
| Main Entry: | menage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | family |
| Synonyms: | ancestors, ancestry, birth, blood, brood, children, clan, class, descendants, descent, dynasty, extraction, folk, forebears, genealogy, generations, genre, group, heirs and assigns, house, household, in-laws, inheritance, issue, kind, kindred, kith and kin, line, lineage, ménage, network, parentage, pedigree, people, progenitors, progeny, race, relations, relationship, relatives, siblings, strain, subdivision, system, tribe |
| Main Entry: | affiliate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization that is associated with another |
| Synonyms: | affil, associate, branch, offshoot, partner, sibling |
| Main Entry: | kin |
| 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: | relation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection, family connection |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, alliance, association, consanguinity, kin, kindred, kinship, kinsperson, liaison, propinquity, relationship, relative, sibling, similarity |
| Main Entry: | relative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | member of a family |
| Synonyms: | agnate, aunt, blood, brother-in-law, clansperson, cognate, connection, cousin, father, father-in-law, folk, folks, grandparents, great-grandparents, in-laws, kinsperson, mother, mother-in-law, nephew, niece, relation, sib, sibling, sister-in-law, stepbrother, stepparent, stepsister, uncle |
| Main Entry: | next of kin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | closest relative |
| Synonyms: | heir, kinsman, near relative, relation, relative, sibling |
| Main Entry: | son |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offspring |
| Synonyms: | ben, boy, child, descendant, disciple, fils, heir, lad, male, native, relative, sibling |
| Antonyms: | daughter |
| Main Entry: | hookup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relation |
| Synonyms: | affiliation, affinity, alliance, association, connection, consanguinity, correlation, interconnection, interdependence, interrelationship, kin, kindred, kinship, kinsperson, liaison, link, linkage, propinquity, relationship, relative, sibling, similarity |
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