kins

noun

1. a person’s relatives collectively; kinfolk.
2. family relationship or kinship.
3. a group of persons descended from a common ancestor or constituting a people, clan, tribe, or family.
4. a relative or kinsman.
5. someone or something of the same or similar kind: philosophy and its kin, theology.

adjective

6. of the same family; related; akin.
7. of the same kind or nature; having affinity.

Idioms

8. of kin, of the same family; related; akin: Although their surnames are identical they are not of kin.

noun

1. a person’s relatives collectively; kindred
2. a class or group with similar characteristics
3. See next of kin

adjective

4. (postpositive) related by blood
5. a less common word for akin

n.

c.1200, from Old English cynn “family; race; kind, sort, rank; nature; gender, sex,” from Proto-Germanic *kunjam “family” (cf. Old Frisian kenn, Old Saxon kunni, Old Norse kyn, Old High German chunni “kin, race;” Danish and Swedish kön, Middle Dutch, Dutch kunne “sex, gender;” Gothic kuni “family, race,” Old Norse kundr “son,” German Kind “child”), from PIE *gen(e)- “to produce” (see genus).

see kith and kin.