Definition of "kinfolk"

kinfolk

noun
countable and uncountable, plural kinfolks or kinfolk
1. (US) Relatives, relations.
  Quotations
  ‘You have kinfolks here though. Women. That used to live in this house.’
  1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage, published 1993, page 122
  That says something about the nature of man—his fantasies of death that get enacted into the slaughter of man by man—kinfolk or strangers in droves—on every possible mindless occasion.
  1982, Bernard Malamud, “Cohn’s Island”, in God’s Grace, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
  Three 6 Mafia, them my kinfolk.
  2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown‎, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG