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kinship

/kin-ship/US // ˈkɪn ʃɪp //UK // (ˈkɪnʃɪp) //

亲属关系,亲戚关系,亲属,血缘关系

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship.
    • : relationship by nature, qualities, etc.; affinity.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • It’s not really surprising that gymnasts, regardless of geographic location and national origin, would feel a kinship with one another.

  • So many of our programs and services – from kinship care to homeless youth outreach to educational enrichment – are not bound by brick-and-mortar buildings.

  • Those conversations are often marked by binary thinking and easy categorization, although how race and culture shape identity, kinship, and solidarity are much more complicated.

  • Several of the pictures suggest landscapes, a kinship the artist has taken to heart.

  • Joy is also the feeling that can arise from sensing kinship with others, experiencing harmony between what we are doing and our values, or seeing the significance in an action, a place, a conversation or even an inanimate object.

  • And yet, the NRA professes no kinship for those being crushed beneath the jackboots.

  • It was an odd sensation for a Russian Jew to feel kinship with Malcolm X.

  • But in Hillary Clinton they feel something beyond the usual kinship with a political figure who shares their ideas.

  • There have been gestures of peace and kinship from both sides.

  • As far as Sal goes, did you feel a kinship with Rebel Without A Cause after playing James Dean?

  • Where it is used in the sense of pertaining to kinship—“They are my blody brethren, quod pieres, for God boughte us alle.”

  • She felt the genuine thing in him somewhere; and, in spite of all, she felt a sort of kinship for him.

  • He claimed kinship with Turberville, a minor poet of the sixteenth century, and he loved to talk of poetry.

  • Dalgard did not reply at once, making mind touch not only to ask but to impress his kinship on the sea people.

  • It makes them feel a sort of kinship with the country of hill-shadows, and strange romance.