kinsman

(noun)

A male relative.

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Examples of kinsman in the following topics:

  • Defeat of Persia by Alexander the Great

    • The Persian king was taken prisoner by Bessus, his Bactrian satrap and kinsman.

  • Vladimir I and Christianization

    • Vladimir fled to his kinsman Haakon Sigurdsson, who ruled Norway at the time.

  • Odoacer and the Fall of Rome

    • The following summer, the Visigothic king Alaric II demonstrated what Wolfram calls "one of the rare displays of Gothic solidarity" and sent military aid to help his kinsman, forcing Odoacer to raise his siege.

  • Daily Medieval Life

    • Women in the Middle Ages were officially required to be subordinate to some male, whether their father, husband, or other kinsman.