1. akin - Adjective
2. akin - Adjective Satellite
3. Akin - Proper noun
Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.
Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
Source: Webster's dictionaryGod drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast. Ambrose
A feeling of sadness and longing That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have. Aristotle
Faint praise is akin to abuse. Danish Proverb
Pity is akin to love. French Proverb
Fire is next akin to smoke. Latin Proverb