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発音

• IPA: /kɪθ/

• 韻: -ɪθ

名詞

kith (usually uncountable, plural kiths)

1. (archaic or obsolete, uncountable) Friends and acquaintances.
   • 1843, Edward Bulwer[-]Lytton, The Last of the Barons, London; New York, N.Y.: George Routledge and Sons […], →OCLC:

     Alack, would that Edward listened more to me and less to the queen’s kith! These Woodvilles!

   • 2000 August 3, Michael Kelly, “New Hope For Nice Guys”, in Orlando Sentinel‎, archived from the original on 18 June 2013:

     The demography-crossing thing that undergirds this election year, I think, is a strong, broad desire to punish Clinton and his kith with a denial of further power.

2. (Northern England, Scotland, rustic, countable) An acquaintance or a friend.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:friend or Thesaurus:acquaintance

派生語

• kith and kin
• kithfolk
• kithless

参考

• kin
• kinfolk

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