Kinfolk (Noun)
Meaning
People descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower".
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- My great-grandparents moved to the city, but the rest of our kinfolk still live in the rural south where our ancestors settled.
- Their family has a long history of producing talented musicians, a trait that has been passed down through generations of kinfolk.
- The old farmhouse had been in the family for centuries, a tangible connection to our kinfolk who had toiled the land.
- Many of our kinfolk had similar facial features, a testament to our shared ancestry.
- The genealogist spent years researching our kinfolk, tracing their origins back to the Scottish Highlands.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
- Bloodline
- Line
- Blood
- Ancestry
- Parentage
- Line Of Descent
- Pedigree
- Stock
- Stemma
- Blood Line
- Origin
- Lineage