next to kin

  • 31next of kin — Synonyms and related words: agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, clansman, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, connections, consanguinean, distaff side, distant relation, enate, family, flesh, flesh and blood, folks,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 32next of kin — Date: circa 1548 one or more persons in the nearest degree of relationship to another person …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 33next of kin — person s nearest relative …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 34next of kin — noun [treated as sing. or plural] a person s closest living relative or relatives …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 35next of kin — UK / US noun [uncountable] your closest relative or relatives, for example your mother, father, son, or daughter. This word is used especially in official documents …

    English dictionary

  • 36next of kin — noun 1. a person s nearest relative or relatives. 2. Law the nearest relative(s), to whom passes the property of a person dying intestate …

  • 37The Next of Kin — Infobox Film name = The Next of Kin caption= director = Thorold Dickinson writer = Basil Bartlett Thorold Dickinson John Dighton Angus MacPhail starring = Mervyn Johns Nova Pilbeam John Chandos Stephen Murray Jack Hawkins producer = Michael… …

    Wikipedia

  • 38statutory next of kin — a blood relative of a person who in case of his death intestate will be entitled by virtue of a statute of distribution to take his personal estate compare next of kin …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 39kin — n: one s relatives kin·ship / ˌship/ n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. kin …

    Law dictionary

  • 40kin — [kın] n [plural] [: Old English; Origin: cyn] 1.) informal also kinsfolk, kinfolk your family 2.) next of kin formal your most closely related family ▪ We ll have to notify the next of kin of his death. →↑kindred →↑ …

    Dictionary of contemporary English