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kindred
[ kin-drid ]
noun
- a group of persons related to another; family, tribe, or clan.
- relationship by birth or descent, or sometimes by marriage; kinship.
- resemblance or connection; affinity:
spiritual kindred.
adjective
- associated by origin, nature, qualities, etc.:
kindred languages.
- having the same belief, attitude, or feeling:
We are kindred spirits on the issue of gun control.
- related by birth or descent; having kinship:
kindred tribes.
- belonging to kin or relatives:
kindred blood.
kindred
/ ˈkɪndrɪd /
adjective
- having similar or common qualities, origin, etc
- related by blood or marriage
- kindred spirita person with whom one has something in common
noun
- relationship by blood
- similarity in character
- a person's relatives collectively
Derived Forms
- ˈkindredness, noun
Other Words From
- kindred·less adjective
- kindred·ness noun
- kindred·ship noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of kindred1
Example Sentences
I learned some things from my younger self—the adventurous, kindred spirit.
So, to take his mind off things, he logs into a phone sex chatroom and connects with a woman whom he thinks is a kindred spirit.
Just me, my 95-year-old dad, and tens of thousands of our kindred spirits.
When I realized that I had a committed group of readers—kindred spirits, really—with whom I could share things.
Kramer and Billy are kindred spirits, but Kramer accuses Billy of being blinded by the seductions of capitalism.
The exile too, far from home and kindred smokes on as he muses of happier hours gone never to return.
Of the Feralia of February 21, the culmination of the festival of the kindred dead (Parentalia), we have already spoken.
Lady Laura had been away from her own home and kindred some twelve years, and it seemed to her half a lifetime.
The third largest employer of workers engaged in manufacturing is the food and kindred products industry.
From the original social group another and closer community seems gradually to have developed, the group of kindred.
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