kinfolk

kinfolk

English

Alternative forms

• kinsfolk

Etymology

From kin +‎ folk.

Noun

kinfolk (countable and uncountable, plural kinfolks)

1. (US, also in plural) Relatives, relations.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 122:

     ‘You have kinfolks here though. Women. That used to live in this house.’

   • 1982, Bernard Malamud, God’s Grace, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, “Cohn’s Island,”

     That says something about the nature of man—his fantasies of death that get enacted into the slaughter of man by man—kinfolk or strangers in droves—on every possible mindless occasion.

   • 2005, Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, and Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), “Stay Fly”, in Most Known Unknown‎, Sony BMG, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG):

     Three 6 Mafia, them my kinfolk.

Synonyms

• family
• relations
• relatives

Translations

Relatives

Belarusian: радня́ (radnjá) Bulgarian: роднини (bg) f (rodnini) German: Verwandte (de) m pl, Verwandtschaft (de) f Greek: σόι (el) n (sói), συγγενολόι (el) n (syngenolói) Louisiana Creole French: paren Russian: родня́ (ru) f (rodnjá), ро́дственники m pl (ródstvenniki), ро́дичи m pl (ródiči), соро́дичи m pl (soródiči) Ukrainian: рідня́ f (ridnjá), ро́дичі m pl (ródyči)

See also

• skinfolk

Anagrams

• folknik