Concept cluster: Social systems > Kinship
n
A natural attraction or feeling of kinship to a person or thing.
v
To live without neither spouse nor children; to live alone or with other single people.
adj
(obsolete) Of illegitimate birth; bastard.
n
(plural only, colloquial, dated) family; relations; household.
n
A relationship between a parent and offspring that establishes the basis for an ongoing mutual attachment.
adj
(loosely) Children born of prominent or high-ranking parents.
n
The state, quality, or condition of a boyfriend.
n
Nurture; education; formation of manners.
adv
In a bridal manner or style.
n
The state of being brothers; brotherhood.
n
Parenting that uses a very friendly approach rather than an authoritarian one.
n
A ritual, with religious or cultural significance.
n
Any group defined by family ties with some sort of political unity.
adj
Of or pertaining to concubinage.
n
The state of being born into the same family, race, or group; a commonality of heritage or birthright.
n
A kinship relationship between people.
adj
Alternative form of contubernal [(rare) Living in the same tent.]
n
The state of being a courtesan; harlotry.
adj
Befitting a courtier.
n
The quality of being cousinly.
n
The 60th anniversary of some event, particularly a wedding.
adj
(of a married couple) living at separate residences
n
(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Eisenstadt v. Baird. A 1972 U.S. Supreme Court case that expanded legalized contraception, expanding access to contraceptives to unmarried couples, and effectively legalized premarital sex, under the Equal Protection Clause following the Griswold ruling; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.
n
One who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
n
A term of respect for a prominent elderly political leader.
n
The quality of being familial.
n
Quality of being familiar.
adj
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
n
(countable) The method in which individuals are grouped together into families that live together.
adj
Resembling a family
n
(obsolete) A domestic or familiar.
n
A kindred member of humanity.
adj
Born as the first one in a family, flock or the like.
adj
Firstborn.
n
(rare) A forebear.
n
raising someone to be an accepted member of the community.
adj
Well or nobly born.
n
One who is favored or the favorite (in a family, on a team, at work, etc.), often held in high esteem by others, and for whom there are high hopes.
n
Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy.
n
The state or condition of being an heir; heirship
adj
Pertaining to marriage.
n
A fundamental idea or guiding principle, seen as giving rise to something.
n
(dated) Acquaintance; intercourse; familiarity.
n
An intrafamilial relationship.
n
Obsolete spelling of kind [A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.]
n
The quality of being kindred.
n
The quality of being kindred.
n
The state, condition, or essence of being kind; kindness.
n
(archaic) Relatives and property; one's total possessions.
n
Obsolete form of kind. [A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.]
n
Obsolete form of kind. [A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.]
adj
Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
n
Freshness; newness.
n
The state or condition of having a mate (someone to reproduce with).
n
Obsolete spelling of meres
n
The behaviour of a nanny state.
adj
Befitting a nobleman.
n
(rare) The condition, state, or status of a nomad
n
The state of being married.
n
The role of the state in caring for and nurturing its citizens.
n
(US, education, law) A legal maneuver through which parents can change the administration of a poorly performing public school, most notably by transforming it into a charter school.
n
The process of raising and educating a child from birth until adulthood.
v
control organizations, things etc. disregarding people's freedom and responsibility under guise and pretense of knowing what would be good and proper for them
n
The quality of being patrimonial.
adj
Involving or pertaining to friendship or platonic love.
n
Affiliation or similarity.
n
The first identified female case of an inherited disease in a family; the proband or index case.
adv
In a queenly manner; regally.
n
Quality of being raised.
n
The state of being related, especially by kinship.
n
(obsolete) A relative; a relation.
adj
(slang) relating to, resembling, or describing a (romantic) relationship
n
The 25th anniversary of some event, particularly a wedding.
n
The state or sphere of those who are single (unmarried or unattached).
n
A foreign city with which a city has a declared relationship of cordiality.
n
The quality of being sisterly; sisterly companionship; especially, the sense that women have of being in solidarity with one another.
n
(particularly Japan, South Korea) Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones.
adj
born in slavery
n
The state or quality of being a spouse.
n
(archaic) A woman over a certain age (variously 26 or 30) who has never married, older than a spinster.
n
Obsolete form of uncle. [The brother or brother-in-law of one’s parent.]
n
The traits acquired during one's childhood training
adv
In an uxorial fashion.
n
The quality of being uxorilocal.
n
Alternative form of wooden anniversary [The 5th anniversary of some event, particularly a wedding.]

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