KINSMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kinsman mean? 

• KINSMAN (noun)
  The noun KINSMAN has 1 sense:

1. a male relative

  Familiarity information: KINSMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINSMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A male relative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("kinsman" is a kind of...):

relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kinsman"):

male sibling (a sibling who is male)

nephew (a son of your brother or sister)

uncle (the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt)

 Context examples 

So he asked his kinsmen, and nobles, and friends, and neighbours.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Hence, no doubt the bond that united him to Mr. Richard Enfield, his distant kinsman, the well-known man about town.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You'll smile, young fellah, but 'pon my word they might have been kinsmen.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenances, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you—he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The king made me a present to the value of about two hundred pounds English, and my protector, his kinsman, as much more, together with a letter of recommendation to a friend of his in Lagado, the metropolis.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His manner was languid, his voice drawling, and while he eclipsed my uncle in the extravagance of his speech, he had not the air of manliness and decision which underlay all my kinsman’s affectations.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An act of cruelty to a child aroused against me the anger of a passer-by, whom I recognised the other day in the person of your kinsman; the doctor and the child’s family joined him; there were moments when I feared for my life; and at last, in order to pacify their too just resentment, Edward Hyde had to bring them to the door, and pay them in a cheque drawn in the name of Henry Jekyll.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)