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kith

/kith/US // kɪθ //UK // (kɪθ) //

钥匙,钥匙串,钥匙扣,钥匙串儿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like; persons living in the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group.
    • : kindred.
    • : a group of people living in the same area and forming a culture with a common language, customs, economy, etc., usually endogamous.

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Examples

  • Poor working women had been doing this for some time, relying on “kith and kin” for child care in particular.

  • Then spake the Earl to that man whose name 118 some say was Fin, but as others have it was of Finnish kith and kin.

  • It is not as relations; Bernard Harper's descendants are neither kith nor kin of mine, and this must be understood.'

  • Unstring thy strong bows for the sake of our liberal lords, O bounteous Rudra, be gracious to our kith and kin.

  • A thousand medicines are thine, O thou who art freely accessible; do not hurt us through our kith and kin!

  • I remember hearing of a match at Ottery, where he was one of an eleven of Coleridge kith and kin against the rest of Devon.