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Kindred

Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.

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Related 84% connected

of Relate

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Related 84% connected

of Relate

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Similar 84% connected

Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.

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Similar 84% connected

Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like.

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Narrower term 4

Family 76% connected

The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Folks 76% connected

In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.

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Genealogy 76% connected

An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succ…

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Totem 76% connected

A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the North American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Relation 70% connected

The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events.

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Relative 70% connected

Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.

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Synonym 4

Akin 92% connected

Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Clan 92% connected

A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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kin 92% connected

A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tribe 92% connected

A family, race, or series of generations, descending from the same progenitor, and kept distinct, as in the case of the twelve tribes of Israel, desc…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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