blood kin
Your biological relations
Blood kin are relatives by birth rather than marriage or adoption—people who share actual genetic ancestry.
The term emphasizes biological connection: She's blood kin, not just family by marriage.
Sometimes shortened to simply kin or expanded to blood kinfolk.
The phrase carries weight in contexts where biological relationship matters legally or emotionally.
- familyRelated people together
- relativesThose connected by blood
- family treeChart of ancestors
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- lineageDescent from progenitors
close relations · clan · tribe · extended family · relations · flesh · heritage · genealogy · brethren · siblings · offspring · descendants · forebears · dynasty · roots · ties · bond · family bond
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- kinship lawconsanguinity, affinity, relatives, family ties, parentage
- blood lorebloodletting, ritual purity, animal sacrifice, purification rites, purification rituals
blood kinin-laws
Relatives through marriage
stepfamily · adopted family · chosen family · foster family · godparents
blood, kin, bloods, bloody, bloodied, bloodying, bloodier, bloodiest, bleed