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Aug. 28, 2016
kith\kith\noun
1. acquaintances, friends, neighbors, or the like; persons living in
the same general locality and forming a more or less cohesive group.
2. kindred.
Quotes... they endure hardships and privations of every kind--supported
by the one thought of the day when they can return home again, and when
... they can rest from wandering, and seated amidst their kith and
kind, tell of the wondrous things they have seen in their journeyings.
-- Charles Lever, The Dodd Family Abroad, 1854
Origin of kithKith hails from the Old English term cȳth, which is
ultimately derived from cȳththu, meaning "kinship, knowledge." It is
akin to the German Kunde meaning "knowledge."More From
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