Definitions for kiths

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IPA: /kɪθ/

Kiths is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in kiths (hikst).

Definitions for kiths

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 kiths

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

Examples for kiths

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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