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Kin vs Spouse - What's the difference?

kin | spouse |

As nouns the difference between kin and spouse

is that kin is pain while spouse is a person's husband or wife.

As a verb spouse is

(dated) to wed; to espouse.

kin

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) kin, kyn, ken, kun, from (etyl) .

Noun

(-)
  • Race; family; breed; kind.
  • (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • You are of kin , and so a friend to their persons.
  • One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
  • Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
  • Kind; sort; manner; way.
    • Derived terms
    * akin * kind * kindred * kinfolk * kinship * kinsman * kinswoman * kith and kin * next of kin
    See also
    * kith * clan
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    Adjective

    (-)
  • Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
    • It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
    • (Riemann)
  • * 1840 , Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository (page 40)
    • If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin .

    Anagrams

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    spouse

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person's husband or wife.
    • People should treat their spouses with respect.
  • * Spenser
    • At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, / That I that lady to my spouse had won.

    Derived terms

    * spousal (pos a)

    Verb

  • (dated) To wed; to espouse.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act III, Scene II, verses 212-214
    • Do you stand possess’d
    Of any proof against the honourableness
    Of Lady Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter?

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