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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
close-knit
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a close-knit/closely-knit/tightly-knit group (=in which everyone knows each other well and gives each other support)
▪ The young mothers in the village are a fairly close-knit group.
a close-knit/intimate circle (=a close one)
▪ His intimate circle was tiny.
a close/close-knit/tight-knit community (=where all the people know each other)
▪ I live in a close-knit community where there's lots of support.
close/close-knit family (=spending a lot of time together and supporting each other)
▪ Laura's family are very close.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
community
▪ Probably, in a close-knit community the negative response of this family has influenced the uptake of the test.
▪ It was a close-knit community with no ambition to expand its interests and activities.
▪ It's also the first time that outsiders have been allowed into their close-knit community.
family
▪ Beyond that, of course, were the compensations of growing up in a large but close-knit family.
▪ New York is now home to Kissin and his close-knit family, which includes his first and only teacher, Anna Kantor.
▪ The emphasis was on self-reliance, with the children free to work out their own solutions without a close-knit family environment.
▪ She is a shy, quiet, religious girl from a small, close-knit family.
group
▪ It seems that these patterns are maintained by insider knowledge depending on the extent to which speakers belong to relatively close-knit groups.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a close-knit team
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Jess is a quiet, intense kid from a large, close-knit farm family in Washington.
▪ New York is now home to Kissin and his close-knit family, which includes his first and only teacher, Anna Kantor.
▪ The areas where neighbours would keep an eye on things were Wester Ross and Speyside, both close-knit farming communities.
▪ The emphasis was on self-reliance, with the children free to work out their own solutions without a close-knit family environment.
▪ This might be because Dickens is trying to tell us that society should be close-knit one and not isolated into different units.
▪ Various versions have been related by the locals of this close-knit and defensive community.
▪ We have a talented, close-knit team.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
close-knit

close-knit \close-knit\ closely-knit \closely-knit\adj. bound together by intimate ties, social, personal, cultural or political; as, closely-knit little villages; a close-knit family.

Wiktionary
close-knit

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

WordNet
close-knit

adj. held together as by social or cultural ties; "a close-knit family"; "close-knit little villages"; "the group was closely knit" [syn: closely knit]

Usage examples of "close-knit".

Ms London Martina Cole was born inAveley in Essex and brought up as part of a large, close-knit family, living in and around Dagenham and Rainham for most of her life.

Stooping forward from his chair, Prex poked a gun muzzle through the close-knit grating, and told his companions to do the same.

When it had, it had spread like wildfire in dried witchgrass, as grim tidings so often do in quiet hamlets and close-knit communities.

Filling the wall entirely, from floor to ceiling and corner to corner, drawn with painstaking care on the plaster in a near-infinity of fine, close-knit penstrokes, was a vast picture.

We’ve speculated that stories and legends about witches, werewolves, and vampires (blood-drinking, or anthropophagy, is a notuncommon trait of the disorganized offender) may have been a way of explaining outrages so hideous that no one in the small and close-knit towns of Europe and early America could comprehend such perversities.

But they seemed happy enough, content in their close-knit, almost familylike group.

Whether he was genuinely delivering slaughtered carcasses to his butcheries or goods to his general dealer stores, or was engaged in less conventional business: the distribution of illicitly brewed liquor, the notorious skokiaan or township dynamite, or ferrying his girls to their places of business nearer the compounds that housed the thousands of black contract workers of the gold-mines so that they could briefly assist them in relieving their monastic existence, or whether he was on the business of the African Mineworkers Union, that close-knit and powerful brotherhood whose existence the white government refused to acknowledge - the blue and red van was the perfect vehicle.

A close-knit pair of shapes rocketed past, silver against deepest blue, and Tombstone caught a glimpse of the red star painted on each of the Korean fighters' tails.

Because the Tongan Archipelago itself was geographically close-knit and included several large islands with unfragmented terrain, each island became unified under a single chief.