kinship
nounUS /ˈkɪnʃɪp/
Etymology From kin + -ship.
1
Relation or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.
2
Relation or connection by nature or character.
- The first of these were the ten engines of class "C8", Nos.290-299, which had a very strong kinship to the C.R. "Carbrooks".1951 November, David R. Webb, “The Drummond 4-4-0 Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 774:
- Derived terms
- nonkinship, skinship
- Related terms
- kin, kith as in kith and kin