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Offspring vs Kin - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between offspring and kin

is that offspring is a person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children while kin is race; family; breed; kind.

As an adjective kin is

related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".

offspring

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A person's daughter(s) and/or son(s); a person's children.
  • All a person's descendants, including further generations.
  • An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
    • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}
  • (figuratively) Another produce, result of an entity's efforts.
  • (computing) A process launched by another process.

    • Usage notes

    * The form offsprings is also used for the plural, especially the computing sense.

    Synonyms

    * baby/babies, child/children, issue (plural only), get * (all descendants) descendants, lineage, progeny, get, binary clone

    Antonyms

    * genitor (rare), parent, progenitor, father (male), mother (female) * (descendants) ancestors, forbears/forebears, forefathers

    Derived terms

    * donor offspring * parent-offspring conflict

    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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