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Definition of Kinship group
1. Noun. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
Generic synonyms: Social Group
Specialized synonyms: Mishpachah, Mishpocha, Family, Family Unit, Folks, Family Tree, Genealogy, Totem, Tribes Of Israel, Twelve Tribes Of Israel
Member holonyms: Relation, Relative, Clan Member, Clansman, Clanswoman, Tribesman
Derivative terms: Kin, Kinship, Kindred, Tribal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kinship Group
Literary usage of Kinship group
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethics by John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts (1908)
"The kinship group.—The kinship group is a body of persons who conceive of themselves
as sprung from one ancestor, and hence as having in their veins one ..."
2. Sociological Study of the Bible by Lucy Blanche (Littelton) Masterman, Louis Wallis, William Shakespeare (1912)
"Many puzzling Bible facts can be explained from the standpoint of the kinship
group.—The Israelites may hold foreigners in slavery; but they may not rule ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"239), between the whole of the kinship group,Whether adult or not; and, moreover,
nowhere arc rites found which are intended to strengthen the union between ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"If endogamy is used in the sense of prohibition to marry outside of a certain
kinship group, whether that group be exclusive of, inclusive of, or identical ..."
5. A Text-book of Sociology by James Quayle Dealey, Lester Frank Ward (1905)
"With primitive man this was carried further, and the members of the kinship group
came to be closely cemented together into what may be called the family. ..."
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