Crossword clues for kith
kith
- Cultural group
- Kin's companion
- Kin partner
- Kin kin
- -- and kin
- __ and kin
- Wedding invitation recipients
- They accompany kin
- Partner of "kin"
- Partner of ''kin''
- Kin of kin
- Friends, old style
- Friends or kindred
- Friends in general
- Friends and acquaintances
- Familiar friends
- Familiar folk
- "Kin" partner
- "Kin" kin
- _____ and kin
- Kiss, to 47-Down
- Kin's partner
- Friends and neighbors
- 50-Across's partner
- Acquaintances, neighbors or the like
- ___ and kin (friends and relatives)
- Familiar folks
- Your friends and acquaintances
- ___ and 14-Across (family)
- Partner of kin
- Acquaintances et al.
- Old friends bringing equipment to hospital
- Friends and acquaintances
- Tackle Henry's mates
- Social group
- Flesh and blood
- Close friends
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kith \Kith\ (k[i^]th), n. [OE. kith, cu[eth], AS. c[=y][eth][eth]e, c[=y][eth], native land, fr. c[=u][eth] known. [root]45. See Uncouth, Can, and cf. Kythe.] Acquaintance; kindred.
And my near kith for that will sore me shend.
--W.
Browne.
The sage of his kith and the hamlet.
--Longfellow.
Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English cyðð "kinship, relationship; kinsfolk, fellow-countrymen, neighbors; native country, home; knowledge, acquaintance, familiarity," from cuð "known," past participle of cunnan "to know" (see can (v.)). Cognate with Old High German chundida. The alliterative phrase kith and kin (late 14c.) originally meant "country and kinsmen" and is almost the word's only survival.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) friends and acquaintances
WordNet
n. your friends and acquaintances; "all his kith and kin"
Wikipedia
Kith may refer to:
- Friendship, friends and acquaintances, as in "kith and kin"
KITH (98.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an Island Music format. Licensed to Kapaa, Hawaii, USA. The station is currently owned by Hochman Hawaii Two, Inc.
The Kith are a starfaring culture featured in a number of stories by Poul Anderson:
:*"Ghetto" (1954)
:*"The Horn of Time the Hunter" (also known as "Homo Aquaticus", 1963)
:*The novel Starfarers (1998) - 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 ("Kithtowns") 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.
As set forth in Starfarers and "Ghetto", the Kithtowns ultimately become ghettos, and pogroms are launched against the Kith. "The Horn of Time the Hunter" suggests that the Kith are ultimately forced to flee human space altogether, and chronicles the return of one group of Kith to human space after hundreds of thousands of years' relativistic travel to the Galactic core.
Usage examples of "kith".
They were indeed the same dark folk who had shanghaied Carter on their noisome galley so long ago, and whose kith he had seen driven in herds about the unclean wharves of that accursed lunar city, with the leaner ones toiling and the fatter ones taken away in crates for other needs of their polypous and amorphous masters.
Whatever hormone Cor had in his kith, it made Xishi as crazed for him as he was for her.
Kith held him with the mopey, whiny child at the inn, I thought it was more than just the silent town that held us in thrall.
She came from the rememberer kith, attractive and intelligent in her own way, her face a sculpture of fleshy lobes that could display a palette of emotions.
That fever had proved particularly deadly for the rememberer kith, with the result that every historian in the Ildiran capital had been wiped out.
I was searching for background material about the Lost Times, when accepted history tells us that all members of the rememberer kith perished in the firefever.
Kith, when Rial appeared at her side, a somber expression on his face.
Cymrian, a man of the race known as Kith, when Rial appeared at her side, a somber expression on his face.
He, the rightful Ban of Suba, was not only her liege lord but her own kith and kin!
If you want to send Kith or Red Toam out to my cottage to read the dirt, they might be able to tell you more.
On the day after Christmas, as if to defy anathema, he himself fulminated a fearful decree of banishment against all the kith and kin of Becket, male and female, old and young.
The crossbow was not as quick as a longbow, and Kith, using one of the stirrup-drawn wooden bows, could outdraw me even with only one arm.
In one fluid movement that belied her age, the ancient Kith soldier rose, drew, and crossed the threshold to the doorstep of the inn, where foredawn had turned the sky to the smoky gray that signals morning is nigh.
Sithas rang for another bottle of Thalian blond as Kith described the state of supplies and morale within Sithelbec and talked about their prospects for the future.
And she reduced to beaky skin, Disgraceful among kith and kin Against her corner, humped and aged, Arachne wrinkled, past enraged, Beyond disgust or hope in guile.