kinfolk

English

Alternative forms

• kinsfolk

Etymology

From kin +‎ folk.

Noun

kinfolk (countable and uncountable, plural kinfolks or kinfolk)

1. (US) Relatives, relations.
   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 122:

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

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

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

     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