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Princeton's WordNet
kithnoun
your friends and acquaintances
"all his kith and kin"
Wiktionary
kithnoun
friends and acquaintances
Etymology: From kith, from cyþþ, cyþþu, from kunþiþō, from ǵenǝ-. Cognate with kundida, kundi, 033A033F033D03380339. More at couth, -th.
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kith
Kith refers to one's friends, acquaintances, neighbors, or relatives. It is often used in the phrase "kith and kin" which means all the people someone knows, including their relatives.
Webster Dictionary
Kithnoun
acquaintance; kindred
Etymology: [OE. kith, cu, AS. ce, c, native land, fr. c known. 45. See Uncouth, Can, and cf. Kythe.]
Wikidata
Kith
The Kith are a starfaring culture featured in a number of stories by Poul Anderson: ⁕"Ghetto" ⁕"The Horn of Time the Hunter" ⁕The novel Starfarers - John W. Campbell Memorial Award nominee, 1999 The Kith develop out of early interstellar explorers in the 21st and 22nd centuries. Because of the effects of time dilation associated with travel at near-light speeds, the Kith maintain separate settlements in which care was taken to keep their language and culture consistent over the course of millennia. As Kith usually marry among themselves, they seek to avoid in-breeding by a strict Exogamy; Kith must find their mates in a ship other their own, marriage between crew members of the same ship being considered a kind of incest. Inevitably, Kith come to regard planet-bound cultures with aloof detachment, as an individual Kith may witness in his or her lifetime the passage of hundreds of years, the rise and fall of empires which can only seem ephemeral. To the ground-dwellers such attitudes come to seem superior and arrogant, and the Kith's apparent near-immortality arouses envy. Although the Kith are instrumental in maintaining the network of trade that makes human interstellar civilization possible, over time they become the object of derision, suspicion and ultimately persecution.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Kith
kith, n. kindred, acquaintance, obsolete except in the phrase Kith and kin, acquaintances and relatives. [A.S. cúð—cunnan, to know.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
KITH
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Kith is ranked #108734 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Kith surname appeared 163 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Kith.
78.5% or 128 total occurrences were Asian.
9.2% or 15 total occurrences were White.
7.9% or 13 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of kith in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of kith in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of kith in a Sentence
AiR:
We are looking for God outside, but the fact is that He lives within. We are searching in Temples and Churches, For the God that’s in kith and kin.
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