kinswoman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a female relative; a woman belonging to the same family or kin group

   She was welcomed into the household as a newly discovered kinswoman.

From Middle English kynneswomman, formed from kin + a connective -s- + woman. Kin descends from Old English cynn, 'family, race, or kind.' Kinswoman is the traditional female counterpart of kinsman and is now chiefly formal, historical, or literary.

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