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Synonyms for kinsmen
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kinz-muh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkɪnz mən |
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Définition of kinsmen
Origin :- c.1200, kenesmen, from late Old English cynnes mannum; see kin + man. Kinswoman is recorded from c.1400.
- noun relative
- Only when they lay dead before him did he remember that they were his own kinsmen.
- Extract from : « Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew » by Josephine Preston Peabody
- If ever he was to see her it would be to-night, when her kinsmen had promised to return.
- Extract from : « Murder Point » by Coningsby Dawson
- They did not scruple, as other Arabs did, to fight against their kinsmen.
- Extract from : « History of Religion » by Allan Menzies
- So he collected all his kinsmen, and set off to fetch his bride.
- Extract from : « Russian Fairy Tales » by W. R. S. Ralston
- This being the case it was possible for us to quarrel, like kinsmen.
- Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton
- But if you will, I will go and seek some of our kinsmen to meet us near by.
- Extract from : « King Arthur's Knights » by Henry Gilbert
- He lavished the possessions of the church upon his friends and kinsmen.
- Extract from : « The New Guide to Peterborough Cathedral » by George S. Phillips
- Kinsmen of the coming centuries, I bid you hail and godspeed!
- Extract from : « The Citizen-Soldier » by John Beatty
- And as to your being kinsmen, why should not kinsmen behave to each other like men of honour?
- Extract from : « St. Ronan's Well » by Sir Walter Scott
- I now have nothing to keep me here; my parents are dead and I have no other kinsmen.
- Extract from : « The Story of Glass » by Sara Ware Bassett
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