Definition of Close-knit

1. Adjective. Held together as by social or cultural ties. "The group was closely knit"

Exact synonyms: Closely Knit
Similar to: Close

Definition of Close-knit

1. Adjective. (of a group) Closely linked or connected, as by a common identity, culture, or bond. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Close-knit

cloques
clorazepate
clorgyline
cloroqualone
clorprenaline hydrochloride
closable
close
close, but no cigar
close-bodied
close-captioning
close-cropped
close-fitting
close-grained
close-hauled
close-knit (current term)
close-mid
close-minded
close-order drill
close-packed
close-packing
close-quarter
close-range
close-serried
close-set
close-set(a)
close-stool
close-stools
close-up
close-up lens

Literary usage of Close-knit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Anthology, 1787-1900: Selections Illustrating the Editor's by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
"... would be dull and trite, Barren as last year's leaves to me Beneath the apple blossoms white; Our hearts close knit shall feel no chilling change. ..."

2. The Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567) by Jean Fernel (2003)
"on the criterion that some are less close-knit than others, and no single similar account of their substance covers them all. Hence their function turns out ..."

3. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"... loose compound of four parts, and in English by three independent words: brother or sister What we express by the •vord brother, a fairly close-knit ..."

4. The Satapatha-brâhmana: According to the Text of the Mâdhyandina School by Julius Eggeling (1897)
"'The close-knit,'—-yonder sun is indeed close - knit, for he knits together the days and nights;—'all-wealthy,'—for that (sun) indeed is every kind of ..."

5. The Writing of English by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1920)
"Now let us consider why this passage can be cut down one- third without loss of an idea and become more close-knit in the process. What are the main defects ..."

6. The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African by Don H. Foster, Paul Haupt, Maresa de Beer (2005)
"We are a close-knit family and, you know, that is one thing I will easy kill for is for my family, if anything or anybody comes too close to my family. ..."

7. The Engineers and the Price System by Thorstein Veblen (1921)
"The industrial system is not yet sufficiently close-knit for that. And yet, that extent and degree of paralysis from which the civilized world's industry is ..."

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