What does Kinfolk mean?

Definitions for Kinfolk
ˈkɪnˌfoʊkkin·folk

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratrynoun

    people descended from a common ancestor

    "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

Wiktionary

  1. kinfolknoun

    Relatives, relations.

Wikipedia

  1. Kinfolk

    The general meaning of the term kinfolk is "relatives, family".

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  1. kinfolk

    Kinfolk refers to one's relatives or family members. It can include immediate family members such as parents, siblings, or children, as well as extended family like cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Kinfolk in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Kinfolk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Kinfolk in a Sentence

  1. Pearl S. Buck:

    The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

  2. Marcel Proust:

    The opinions we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.

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