kinship group

1. 1.

   group of people related by blood or marriage

   Synonymskinkin groupkindredclantribe

   Broadersocial group

   NarrowermishpochafamilyfolksgenealogytotemTribes of Israel

Questions about kinship group

What does kinship group mean?

kinship group means "group of people related by blood or marriage".

What is another word for kinship group?

Close synonyms include kin, kin group, kindred, clan, tribe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kinship group a common word?

kinship group is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.