kinfolk

[kin-fohk]

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plural noun Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S.

relatives or kindred.

Also kin·folks, kinsfolk.

Origin of kinfolk

1425–75; late Middle English kinnes-folk; see kin, folk

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Related Words for kinfolk

tribe, family, people, house, sibling, relation, folk, member, extraction, affinity, stock, clan, relationship, kindred, blood, cousin, lineage, consanguinity, connection, race

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Contemporary Examples of kinfolk

By 6:30 a.m., New Yorkers in sparkly spandex gathered at the entrance of Kinfolk 94 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Jessica Burdon
May 8, 2014

Historical Examples of kinfolk

His kinfolk hoped that some day he would be President of the Town Board.
Ade's Fables
George Ade
Anyhow he didn't have any kinfolk in this country, so it don't much matter.
News Writing
M. Lyle Spencer
I love you faithfully, and if you are still my good Rosalie I am ready to marry you here in the presence of my kinfolk.
The Memoires of Casanova, Complete
Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
I've heard my grandfather say that our kinfolk, who dwell far to the south beyond the big seawater, have the same custom.
The Magic Speech Flower
Melvin Hix
Tell your kinfolk and families and friends and neighbors to make bands and hang together.
The Covered Wagon
Emerson Hough

British Dictionary definitions for kinfolk

kinfolk

pl n

mainly US and Canadian another word for kinsfolk

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Word Origin and History for kinfolk

also kin-folk, 1802, principally American English, but the earliest references are British, from kin (n.) + folk (n.). Kinsfolk is recorded from 1844.