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kindred

[ kin-drid ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)
  1. a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
  2. a group of persons related to another; family, tribe, or clan.
  3. relationship by birth or descent, or sometimes by marriage; kinship.
  4. resemblance or connection; affinity:

    spiritual kindred.



adjective

  1. associated by origin, nature, qualities, etc.:

    kindred languages.

  2. having the same belief, attitude, or feeling:

    We are kindred spirits on the issue of gun control.

  3. related by birth or descent; having kinship:

    kindred tribes.

  4. belonging to kin or relatives:

    kindred blood.

kindred

/ ˈkɪndrɪd /

adjective

  1. having similar or common qualities, origin, etc
  2. related by blood or marriage
  3. kindred spirit
    a person with whom one has something in common
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. relationship by blood
  2. similarity in character
  3. a person's relatives collectively
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈkindredness, noun
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Other Words From

  • kindred·less adjective
  • kindred·ness noun
  • kindred·ship noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of kindred1

First recorded in 1125–75; Middle English, variant (with epenthetic d ) of kinrede; kin, -red
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Word History and Origins

Origin of kindred1

C12 kinred, from kin + -red, from Old English rǣden rule, from rǣdan to rule
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Example Sentences

Haitians held an elaborate funeral in absentia for the abolitionist John Brown, who they saw as a kindred spirit.

Russell even dedicates the book to the memory of her own mother, who, she says, saw Roosevelt as a role model and had a kindred creative and intellectual energy.

Ordinarily that would be true, but, in a stroke of good luck, my girlfriend is a kindred spirit.

I hope we remember we don’t have to make a case for how alike we are to be kindred.

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He encountered new vistas and met future collaborators, including Michael Atiyah, a kindred spirit whose mathematical homes in algebraic geometry and topology perfectly complemented Is’ expertise in differential geometry and analysis.

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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