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Kindred

Kindred Meaning & Definition
Kindred Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Kindred?

[n] group of people related by blood or marriage
[adj] related by blood or marriage; "kindred clans"
[adj] similar or related in quality or character; "a feeling akin to terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely related to the collector"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Kindred: akin(p) | clan | kin | kin group | kinship group | related | similar | tribe

Related Terms | Find terms related to Kindred: affiliated | affiliation | affinal | agnate | agnation | akin | alliance | allied | analogous | ancestry | associated | avuncular | blood | blood relation | blood relationship | blood relative | brotherhood | brothership | clan | clansman | close | closely related | cognate | cognation | collateral | collateral relative | common | common ancestry | common descent | congeneric | congenerous | connate | connatural | connection | connections | consanguine | consanguinean | consanguineous | consanguinity | cousinhood | cousinship | distaff side | distant relation | distantly related | enate | enation | family | fatherhood | filiation | flesh | flesh and blood | folk | folks | foster | fraternity | genetically related | german | germane | house | incident | kin | kinfolk | kinnery | kinsfolk | kinship | kinsman | kinsmen | kinswoman | kith and kin | like | lineage | matching | maternity | matrilateral | matrilineage | matrilineal | matriliny | matrisib | matroclinous | matrocliny | motherhood | near relation | next of kin | novercal | of common source | of the blood | parallel | paternity | patrilateral | patrilineage | patrilineal | patriliny | patrisib | patroclinous | patrocliny | people | posterity | propinquity | race | related | related by blood | relation | relations | relationship | relatives | sib | sibling | sibship | similar | sisterhood | sistership | spear kin | spear side | spindle kin | spindle side | stock | sword side | ties of blood | tribe | tribesman | united | uterine | uterine kin

See Also | clan member | clansman | clanswoman | family | family tree | family unit | folks | genealogy | relation | relative | social group | totem | Tribes of Israel | tribesman | Twelve Tribes of Israel

Kindred In Webster's Dictionary

\Kin"dred\, n. [OE. kinrede, kynrede, kunreden (with excrescent d), fr. AS. cynn kin, race + the termination -r[=ae]den, akin to AS. r[=ae]dan to advise, G. rathen. Cf. {Hatred}.] 1. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin. Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. -- Dryden. 2. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other. I think there's no man is secure But the queen's kindred. --Shak. Syn: Kin; kinsfolk; relatives; kinsmen; relations; relationship; affinity.
\Kin"dred\, a. Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions. True to the kindred points of heaven and home. --Wordsworth.

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