KINSWOMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kinswoman mean? 

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

1. a female relative

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINSWOMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A female relative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

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

aunt; auntie; aunty (the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle)

female sibling (a person's sister)

niece (a daughter of your brother or sister)

 Context examples 

I believe you, St. John; for I am sure you are incapable of wishing any one ill; but, as I am your kinswoman, I should desire somewhat more of affection than that sort of general philanthropy you extend to mere strangers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had not kept his promise of treating me like his sisters; he continually made little chilling differences between us, which did not at all tend to the development of cordiality: in short, now that I was acknowledged his kinswoman, and lived under the same roof with him, I felt the distance between us to be far greater than when he had known me only as the village schoolmistress.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The two girls, on whom, kneeling down on the wet ground, and looking through the low, latticed window of Moor House kitchen, I had gazed with so bitter a mixture of interest and despair, were my near kinswomen; and the young and stately gentleman who had found me almost dying at his threshold was my blood relation.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)