KINFOLK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kinfolk mean? 

• KINFOLK (noun)
  The noun KINFOLK has 1 sense:

1. people descended from a common ancestor

  Familiarity information: KINFOLK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINFOLK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

People descended from a common ancestor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

family; family line; folk; kinfolk; kinsfolk; phratry; sept

Context example:

his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower

Hypernyms ("kinfolk" is a kind of...):

ancestry; blood; blood line; bloodline; descent; line; line of descent; lineage; origin; parentage; pedigree; stemma; stock (the descendants of one individual)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kinfolk"):

people (members of a family line)

homefolk (the people of your home locality (especially your own family))

house (aristocratic family line)

dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)

gens; name (family based on male descent)

 Context examples 

A gun cracked among the rocks to the right, and Negore heard the war-yell of all his tribe, and for an instant saw the rocks and bushes bristle alive with his kinfolk.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)