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kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

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adj. related by blood or marriage; "kindred clans"

adj. similar in quality or character; "a feeling akin to terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely related to the collector"

people

n. members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"

kin, kinsperson, family

n. a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry

n. people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"

lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

n. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

house

n. aristocratic family line; "the House of York"

house

n. the management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet"

clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack, camp

n. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

gang, pack, ring, mob

n. an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

crowd, crew, gang, bunch

n. an informal body of friends; "he still hangs out with the same crowd"

group, grouping

n. any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed

n. the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"

people

n. (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"

race

n. people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"

dynasty

n. a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family

alike(p), similar, like

adj. having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are generally alike in background and taste"

parallel

adj. of or relating to the simultaneous performance of multiple operations; "parallel processing"

comparable, corresponding, like

adj. conforming in every respect; "boxes with corresponding dimensions"; "the like period of the preceding year"

like, similar

adj. resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination; "suits of like design"; "a limited circle of like minds"; "members of the cat family have like dispositions"; "as like as two peas in a pod"; "doglike devotion"; "a dreamlike quality"

affinal, affine

adj. (anthropology) related by marriage

agnate, agnatic, paternal

adj. related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt"

akin(p), blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, consanguineal, kin(p)

adj. related by blood

Allied

adj. of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War I; "an allied offensive"; "the Allied powers"

enate, enatic, maternal(p)

adj. related on the mother's side; "my maternal grandmother"

analogous, correspondent

adj. similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar; "brains and computers are often considered analogous"; "salmon roe is marketed as analogous to caviar"

connatural

adj. similar in nature; "and mix with our connatural dust"- John Milton

corresponding

adj. similar especially in position or purpose; "a number of corresponding diagonal points"

quasi(a)

adj. having some resemblance; "a quasi success"; "a quasi contract"

semi

adj. (prefix) having some of the characteristics of: "semiofficial"

Siamese, twin

adj. very similar

unrelated

adj. not connected by kinship

dissimilar

adj. not similar; "a group of very dissimilar people"; "a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm"; "their understanding of the world is not so dissimilar from our own"; "took different (or dissimilar) approaches to the problem"

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