KINSHIP GROUP
Dictionary entry overview: What does kinship group mean?
• KINSHIP GROUP (noun)
The noun KINSHIP GROUP has 1 sense:
1. group of people related by blood or marriage
Familiarity information: KINSHIP GROUP used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• KINSHIP GROUP (noun)
Meaning:
Group of people related by blood or marriage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
clan; kin group; kindred; kinship group; kin; tribe
Hypernyms ("kinship group" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Meronyms (members of "kinship group"):
relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)
clan member; clansman; clanswoman (a member of a clan)
tribesman (someone who lives in a tribe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kinship group"):
mishpachah; mishpocha ((Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends))
family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)
folks (your parents)
family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)
totem (a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object)
Tribes of Israel; Twelve Tribes of Israel (twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob)
