"kinfolk" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From kin + folk.",
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          "ref": "1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 122",
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          "ref": "1982, Bernard Malamud, “Cohn’s Island”, in God’s Grace, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux",
          "text": "That says something about the nature of man—his fantasies of death that get enacted into the slaughter of man by man—kinfolk or strangers in droves—on every possible mindless occasion.",
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          "ref": "2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG",
          "text": "Three 6 Mafia, them my kinfolk.",
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          "code": "be",
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          "roman": "radnjá",
          "sense": "Relatives",
          "word": "радня́"
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          "roman": "rodnini",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "sense": "Relatives",
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          "text": "Three 6 Mafia, them my kinfolk.",
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      "sense": "Relatives",
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      "roman": "rodnjá",
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      "word": "родня́"
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      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "Relatives",
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      "word": "ро́дственники"
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      "roman": "ridnjá",
      "sense": "Relatives",
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      "word": "рідня́"
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      "sense": "Relatives",
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