Meaning of KINDRED
| Pronunciation: | | 'kindrid
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | akin(p), clan, kin, kin group, kinship group, related, similar, tribe |
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| | 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 | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Definition: | | a collection of bilateral kin. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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