Synonyms for kith
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kith |
| Phonetic Transcription : kɪθ |
Top 10 synonyms for kith Other synonyms for the word kith
Définition of kith
Origin :- Old English cyðð "kinship, relationship; kinsfolk, fellow-countrymen, neighbors; native country, home; knowledge, acquaintance, familiarity," from cuð "known," past participle of cunnan "to know" (see can (v.)). Cognate with Old High German chundida. The alliterative phrase kith and kin (late 14c.) originally meant "country and kinsmen" and is almost the word's only survival.
- As in kin : noun blood relative
- As in kinfolk : noun kin
- My grandfather is his cousin, so he's kith and kin to me, somehow, if you can make that out.
- Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
- I reject you, and all of your kith and kin—all the false, hollow, heartless stock.'
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- But Meade is the man of their own kith and kin, and they ought to have known him.
- Extract from : « Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 » by Adam Gurowski
- Gone was the only living man who had stood to him for kith and kin.
- Extract from : « The Lion's Skin » by Rafael Sabatini
- I cannot serve my own kith and kin, but must seek my bread from the stranger!
- Extract from : « Lord Kilgobbin » by Charles Lever
- Our word "kith," in the proverb "kith and kin," means persons of our acquaintance.
- Extract from : « Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 » by J. Endell Tyler
- Of country, parents, kith and kin (life's boon) myself debar?
- Extract from : « The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus » by Caius Valerius Catullus
- Oliver and Stephen alone had no kith and kin to see them on this proud day.
- Extract from : « The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's » by Talbot Baines Reed
- Is it true, what he says, that he's nor kith nor kin, hereabouts?
- Extract from : « Reels and Spindles » by Evelyn Raymond
- We marry and are taken in marriage by, and among, our own kith and kin.
- Extract from : « The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 » by Various
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