Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun next_of_kin

1 sense of next of kin

Sense 1
next of kin -- (the person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given person)
       => relative, relation -- (a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey")