KINFOLK

family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry

(noun) people descended from a common ancestor; “his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

kinfolk (countable and uncountable, plural kinfolks)

(US, also in plural) Relatives, relations.

Synonyms

• family

• relations

• relatives

Anagrams

• folknik

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

3 February 2025

CRAZY

(adjective) possessed by inordinate excitement; “the crowd went crazy”; “was crazy to try his new bicycle”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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