kin
ബന്ധുക്കൾക്ക്
definition
noun
he is expected to make a payment to his wife's kin
one's family and relations.
adjective
he was kin to the brothers
related.
suffix
forming diminutive nouns such as bumpkin , catkin.
example
Precisely how fishes and other animals recognize 'kin' is hotly debated in the scientific community.
Extended family and 'kin' are an important part of the social structure of the republic.
In gathering information about who lives in the home and who fulfills family roles, it is important to assess for the involvement of extended family and non-blood 'kin' .
Though he is 'kin' to God in nature, all his character is unlike God.
There is 'kin' - immediate and extended family - and close behind that, neighbors, members of my social group, people to whom I can turn in need, people like me.
A pervasive myth is that the extended family does not exist and that society is composed of nuclear families cut off from extended 'kin' .
That is, men interact with their wives' 'kin' as individuals rather than as representatives of their corporate Houses.
Most households are not nuclear families, but contain other 'kin' as well.
They would have seen themselves as intellectually 'kin' to men who do not figure in these lists - priests or scholars who had on the face of it no great philosophical interest.
Smaller herbivorous dinosaurs, however, may have fed to a greater extent than their larger 'kin' on plants defended by qualitative toxins.
Traveling together with family, friends, and extended 'kin' these mobile groups bond and build community life.
A powerful deterrent to deviant behavior is that such behavior brings shame to one's family and 'kin' and is considered sinful.
The preceding plants form a grade between the lineages considered in Lab 9 (conifers, Ginkgo and Cordaites) and the flowering plants and their 'kin' .
The family also teaches that 'kin' are the appropriate source of friendly companionship.
From the moment of birth an infant is showered with attention and care by family members and extended 'kin' .
All of the mother and fathers' relatives are considered 'kin' .
Relatives seek out prospective mates for their 'kin' from desirable families.
Marriage always takes place then (in theory) between people who are already kin but only 'kin' of a specified kind.
This may allow non-breeding animals to pass along the genes they share with their 'kin' by helping in the rearing of young.
This often makes mutual aid and small business formation a whole family strategy, encompassing extended and mythical 'kin' with geographical or social ties in the sending country.
Neoreligious communities have emerged in which people are guided to the other side to communicate with deceased family members and 'kin' .
They are 'kin' to dragons from when humans first settled on Pern.
Family and 'kin' are the primary focus of an individual's loyalties and identity.
Nuclear families are the main kin group, with relatives involved as 'kin' in the extended family.
Most families are in practice extended, with elderly or other 'kin' in the household and other relatives nearby.
As is the case with many blended or separated families, children don't always understand the relationships between 'kin' .
At every level of society a person looks to family and 'kin' for both social identity and succor.
Juvenile salmon clearly avoided 'kin' when they shared shelters and preferred to associate with unrelated conspecifics.
Hey, maybe you're in a movie where your boyfriend is some sort of 'kinless' clone or alien.
The Anganen rawa man emerges in the image of the cassowary as the solitary, 'kinless' , irrational, violent being of masculine excess.
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