Word Meanings - KIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin.

Related words: (words related to KIN)

• DIMINUTIVE
  1. Below the average size; very small; little. 2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word. 3. Tending to diminish. Diminutive of liberty. Shaftesbury.
• SUFFIX
  A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
• SUFFIXION
  The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed.
• SUFFIXMENT
  Suffixion. Earle.
• DIMINUTIVENESS
  The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
• MANIKIN
  1. A little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin. 2. A model of the human body, made of papier-mache or other material, commonly in detachable pieces, for exhibiting the different parts and organs, their relative position, etc.
• LAMBKIN
  A small lamb.
• DIMINUTIVELY
  In a diminutive manner.