dictionary definitions for "kinsfolk"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  kinsfolk
      n : people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has
          lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn:
          family, family line, folk, kinfolk, sept,
          phratry]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Kinsfolk \Kins"folk`\, n.
     Relatives; kindred; kin; kinfolk; persons of the same family
     or closely related families.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           They sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
                                                    --Luke ii. 44.
     [1913 Webster]


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