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Nonking vs Nonkin - What's the difference?

nonking | nonkin |

As nouns the difference between nonking and nonkin

is that nonking is one who, or that which, is not a king while nonkin is a group of people who are not one's relatives (not kin).

nonking

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, is not a king.
  • * 1983 , Edwin Arthur Maxwell, Introduction to statistical thinking (page 161)
    • Similarly, for each of the other draws, the probability of a nonking is 12/13.
  • * 1993 , Nicolas Shumway, The Invention of Argentina (page 22)
    • In short, the oath was more than anything a way of uniting Creoles and Spaniards of all political stripes under one banner; no one objected to swearing allegiance to a nonking .
  • * 2006 , Soedjatmoko, An Introduction to Indonesian Historiography (page 96)
    • A babatangan is a nonking whose future kingship was predicted by a priest...

    nonkin

    English

    Alternative forms

    *non-kin

    Noun

    (-)
  • A group of people who are not one's relatives (not kin)

    • Derived terms

    *nonkinship