Of the same kin; related by blood.
[W]e are too near a kin to lye together, tho' vve may Lodge near one another; […]
Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
To relate or .
I like to akin the P-Diddy case to Gen-Z's version of the O.J. Simpson trial.
A surname.
From a corruption of of kin, from Middle English of kyn (“related, of kin”), equivalent to a- + kin (1550s). Compare Old English cyn, cynn (“akin, proper, suitable”, adj.).
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