Definitions for kinsmen

kinsmen kins·man

Spelling: [kinz-muh n]
IPA: /ˈkɪnz mən/

Kinsmen is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in kinsmen (eikmnns).

Definitions for kinsmen

noun

  1. a blood relative, especially a male.
  2. a relative by marriage.
  3. a person of the same nationality or ethnic group.

Origin of kinsmen

First recorded in 1100-50, kinsman is from the late Old English word cinnes man. See kin, 's1, man1

Examples for kinsmen

I now have nothing to keep me here; my parents are dead and I have no other kinsmen.

And as to your being kinsmen, why should not kinsmen behave to each other like men of honour?

If ever he was to see her it would be to-night, when her kinsmen had promised to return.

This being the case it was possible for us to quarrel, like kinsmen.

Only when they lay dead before him did he remember that they were his own kinsmen.

But if you will, I will go and seek some of our kinsmen to meet us near by.

So he collected all his kinsmen, and set off to fetch his bride.

kinsmen of the coming centuries, I bid you hail and godspeed!

They did not scruple, as other Arabs did, to fight against their kinsmen.

He lavished the possessions of the church upon his friends and kinsmen.

Word Value for kinsmen
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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