What is another word for kinships?

Pronunciation: [kˈɪnʃɪps] (IPA)

Kinships are the relationships that individuals share with each other based on blood, marriage, or adoption. There are various synonyms for the term kinships, including family, offspring, clan, tribe, kindred, relations, and kinsfolk. Each of these words has its unique meaning, though all refer to the same concept of familial or relational bonds. Family is a general term used to refer to parents, children, siblings, and relatives living under one roof. Offspring refers to individuals who are born of a particular parent or parents. Clan and tribe are terms used to describe larger, more extended family units based on ancestry or geographic location. Kindred, relations, and kinsfolk are interchangeable terms used to describe the broader family network.

What are the hypernyms for Kinships?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Kinships

So it is a strange thing that men who are schooled by evolution to relate themselves to all that exists, and to seek for new kinships, should lament that there is no new thing under the sun.
"The Kempton-Wace Letters"
Jack London Anna Strunsky
In their isolated and often mistaken struggle they had felt themselves for generations stricken with chill and barrenness; their blood now began to feel the glow of new kinships, the passion of large horizons.
"The Case of Richard Meynell"
Mrs. Humphrey Ward
I cannot think of a family group in savagery with father, mother, sons, and daughters, all delightfully known to each other, in terms which also belong to the civilised family, and still less can I think of these terms being used to take in the extended grouping of local kinships.
"Folklore as an Historical Science"
George Laurence Gomme

Famous quotes with Kinships

  • The exploration of oneself is usually also an exploration of the world at large, of other writers, a process of comparison with oneself with others, discoveries of kinships, gradual illumination of one's own potentialities.
    Colin Wilson

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