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/əkˈɪn/ /ˈeɪkɪn/ Listen

adjective

Akin adj.

Of the same kin; related by blood; used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. "A joy akin to rapture." "The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character." Note: This adjective is used only after the noun.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... The subversive character of the Communist Party in the United States has been clearly demonstrated in many ways, including court proceedings. We should recognize by law a fact that is plain to all thoughtful citizens-that we are dealing here with actions akin to treason—that when a citizen knowingly participates in the Communist conspiracy he no longer holds allegiance to ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... public character and literary reputation of Colonel Torrens. He is, we believe, a self-taught political economist; and, like Colonel Thompson, early achieved distinction in a branch of moral science not considered particularly akin to military pursuits. But in his recent labours, he has very seriously damaged his reputation, by attempting to bolster up a policy whose influence on the welfare of the nation has been of the most deadly and pernicious kind; and we therefore advert to the letters called the Budget, more with ...

— The Economist - Volume 1, No. 3 • Various

... While other youths were frittering away in frivolous amusements the precious years of budding vigor which God had given them for useful preparation, this boy was patiently enriching his mind with information concerning turnips. The sentiment which he felt toward the turnip was akin to adoration. He could not think of the turnip without emotion; he could not speak of it calmly; he could not contemplate it without exaltation. He could not eat it without shedding tears. All the poetry in his sensitive nature was in sympathy with the gracious vegetable. With the earliest ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... the stifling, sweating hold, with two hundred miserable captives like herself, torn from various islands and speaking a language akin to her own, lay the heart-broken and despairing daughter of Big Harry ...

— Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories - 1898 • Louis Becke

... an effect which Albert noticed with considerable satisfaction—he was never quite as flippantly personal in his comments concerning the assistant bookkeeper. He treated the latter, if not with respect, at least with something distantly akin ...

— The Portygee • Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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