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kinfolk
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kin·folk  (knfk) also kins·folk (knz-) or kin·folks (knfks)
pl.n.
Relatives; kindred.
kinfolk [ˈkɪnˌfəʊk]
pl n
Chiefly US and Canadian another word for kinsfolk
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Noun1.kinfolk - people descended from a common ancestorkinfolk - people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower"
family line, kinsfolk, phratry, sept, folk, family
people - members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
homefolk - the people of your home locality (especially your own family); "he wrote his homefolk every day"
house - aristocratic family line; "the House of York"
dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
gens, name - family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name"
blood line, bloodline, ancestry, lineage, pedigree, stemma, line of descent, parentage, blood, origin, descent, stock, line - the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
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Of course the lil' lady herself isn't there when I visit but Uncle Bill is, and together with Uncle Louis and a couple of cousins, they make up a group of Dolly's family and friends collectively calling themselves The Kinfolks.
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Our favourite is 'out on the back porch' with the Kinfolks, Dolly's own uncle and aunt.
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The average Mississippian,' wrote the Jackson Daily News, 'cant imagine himself chipping in to pay pensions for able-bodied Negroes to sit around in idleness on front galleries, supporting all their kinfolks on pensions, while cotton and corn crops are crying for workers to get them out of the grass.
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