The word for today is…
kith (noun):
: familiar friends, neighbors, or relatives
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : If you’d used the word kith a thousand years ago, you might have been referring to knowledge, or to a homeland, or possibly to your neighbours and acquaintances. While those first two meanings of kith have long since fallen out of use, the word endures with a meaning very close to that “neighbours and acquaintances” one. Today kith appears almost exclusively in the phrase kith and kin, meaning “friends and relatives.” (Kin, another ancient word, can also refer independently to relatives.) Occasionally you will see kith and kin used to refer only to family members, much to the chagrin of those who despise redundancy in language. If you wish to avoid redundancy charges you’ll be sure to include friends as well as family among your “kith and kin.”
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