Definition of kinfolk in English:

kinfolk

plural nounˈkɪnfəʊkˈkɪnfoʊk

another term for kinsfolk

Definition of kinfolk in US English:

kinfolk

(also kinsfolk, kinfolks)

plural nounˈkɪnfoʊkˈkinfōk

1(in anthropological or formal use) a person's blood relations, regarded collectively.
Example sentencesExamples
- Mobilising her natal familija, most of her son's agnatic kinfolk, and many other unrelated families in the village through persistent negotiations, she mounted a vigorous campaign for her son's election.
- Most of these marriages were strongly resisted by the kinsfolk of the parties, particularly those that involved agnates from the same village, though none of them were from the same hamlet.
- Traditionally, the groom's family and kinfolk would provide a number of pigs and shells to the father of the bride in compensation for the loss of his daughter.
- And finally, the spirit of the deceased has another chance of life in this world with his/her own kinsfolk.
- Indeed, no blood relations witnessed the will, but only Hester's servant and the kinsfolk of her executor and beneficiary, her ‘good friend Anthony Short,’ the controversial Laudian minister.
Synonyms
relatives, relations, kin, kindred, family members, family, kith and kin, kinsmen, kinswomen, one's own flesh and blood, blood relatives, connections
1. 1.1 A group of people related by blood.
  a set of kinfolk
  Example sentencesExamples
  He is pursued by the Furies, grotesque female divinities charged with the punishment of those who have shed the blood of kinfolk.
  In many Aboriginal societies, certain kinfolk stand in what are called ‘avoidance relationships’ with each other.
  By the time we discover the link between the blue bloods, the dead people, and the fracasing kinfolk, we've lost all interest in the outcome or reveal.
  Feasts that celebrate deceased kinfolk are still very important celebrations.
  Before the Clearances, most Highland families lived in such townships, in a kind of collective, or joint-tenancy farm, housing perhaps a hundred or so people, who were often kinsfolk.

单词	kinfolk
释义	Definition of kinfolk in English: kinfolk plural nounˈkɪnfəʊkˈkɪnfoʊk another term for kinsfolk Definition of kinfolk in US English: kinfolk (also kinsfolk, kinfolks) plural nounˈkɪnfoʊkˈkinfōk 1(in anthropological or formal use) a person's blood relations, regarded collectively. Example sentencesExamples Mobilising her natal familija, most of her son's agnatic kinfolk, and many other unrelated families in the village through persistent negotiations, she mounted a vigorous campaign for her son's election. Most of these marriages were strongly resisted by the kinsfolk of the parties, particularly those that involved agnates from the same village, though none of them were from the same hamlet. Traditionally, the groom's family and kinfolk would provide a number of pigs and shells to the father of the bride in compensation for the loss of his daughter. And finally, the spirit of the deceased has another chance of life in this world with his/her own kinsfolk. Indeed, no blood relations witnessed the will, but only Hester's servant and the kinsfolk of her executor and beneficiary, her ‘good friend Anthony Short,’ the controversial Laudian minister. Synonyms relatives, relations, kin, kindred, family members, family, kith and kin, kinsmen, kinswomen, one's own flesh and blood, blood relatives, connections 1.1 A group of people related by blood. a set of kinfolk Example sentencesExamples He is pursued by the Furies, grotesque female divinities charged with the punishment of those who have shed the blood of kinfolk. In many Aboriginal societies, certain kinfolk stand in what are called ‘avoidance relationships’ with each other. By the time we discover the link between the blue bloods, the dead people, and the fracasing kinfolk, we've lost all interest in the outcome or reveal. Feasts that celebrate deceased kinfolk are still very important celebrations. Before the Clearances, most Highland families lived in such townships, in a kind of collective, or joint-tenancy farm, housing perhaps a hundred or so people, who were often kinsfolk.
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