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kinsman

/kinz-muhn/US // ˈkɪnz mən //UK // (ˈkɪnzmən) //

亲属,亲属关系,亲戚,亲属关系人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural kins·men.

    • : a blood relative, especially a male.
    • : a relative by marriage.
    • : a person of the same nationality or ethnic group.

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Examples

  • Of silence before them that salute thee: of looking upon a harlot: and of turning away thy face from thy kinsman.

  • Gwynne's mind seemed to darken until only one luminous point confronted it, the visible tormented soul of his kinsman.

  • She knew all the great artists, and favored her kinsman, the musician Garangeot.

  • Among them was William Cowper, not a kinsman of the defendant, but the most celebrated anatomist that England had then produced.

  • It would bring thee the greatest ill-chance shouldst thou slay thy kinsman, for in such case all men would deem him blameless.