akin
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akin (comparative more akin, superlative most akin)
- (of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, ch. 23:
- We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
- 1897, Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, ch. 2:
- The faces changed, passing in rotation. Youthful faces, bearded faces, dark faces: faces serene, or faces moody, but all akin with the brotherhood of the sea.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, ch. 23:
- (often followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
- 1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:
- Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
- 1710, anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator, vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39:
- She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
- 1814, Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, ch. 44:
- Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
- 1837, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, ch. 39:
- Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
- 1910, Zane Grey, "Old Well-Well," Success (July):
- Something akin to a smile shone on his face.
- 1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:
Usage notes [edit]
- This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.
Translations [edit]
of the same kin; related by blood
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of the same kind; similar
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Tagalog [edit]
Adjective [edit]
akin(g)
- (possessive) my.
Pronoun [edit]
akin
- (possessive) mine.
