1 similar or related in quality or character; "a feeling akin to terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely related to the collector" [syn: akin(p), kindred, related]
- WEAE /ʌˈkɪn/
- In the context of "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,
by nature; 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 notesThis adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.
of the same kin; related by blood
- Czech: příbuzný
of the same kind
- Czech: příbuzný
Akin is a surname, and may refer to:
akin in German: Akın
akin in Spanish: Akin
akin in Turkish: Akin
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