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tightknit

adj

Etymology

From tight + knit.

  1. inherited from *knutjaną✻
  2. inherited from *knuttijan✻
  3. inherited from cnyttan
  4. inherited from knytten
  5. compounded as tightknit — “tight + knit”

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of tight-knit.

    • “It’s night and day,” she said of the tightknit feel of the neighborhood then, compared with today.

The neighborhood

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