Akin: Definition and part of speech

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Akin

  1. a. Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
  2. a. Of the same kin; related by blood; — used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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