Definitions for kith

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Spelling: [kith]

IPA: /kɪθ/

Kith is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 21 anagrams from letters in kith (hikt).

Definitions for kith

noun

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

Origin of kith

before 900; Middle English; Old English cȳth, earlier cȳththu kinship, knowledge, equivalent to cūth couth² + -thu -th¹

Examples for kith

I cannot serve my own kith and kin, but must seek my bread from the stranger!

Our word "kith," in the proverb "kith and kin," means persons of our acquaintance.

Oliver and Stephen alone had no kith and kin to see them on this proud day.

Is it true, what he says, that he's nor kith nor kin, hereabouts?

My grandfather is his cousin, so he's kith and kin to me, somehow, if you can make that out.

I reject you, and all of your kith and kin—all the false, hollow, heartless stock.'

We marry and are taken in marriage by, and among, our own kith and kin.

Gone was the only living man who had stood to him for kith and kin.

But Meade is the man of their own kith and kin, and they ought to have known him.

Of country, parents, kith and kin (life's boon) myself debar?