Kindred
['kɪndrɪd] or ['kɪndrəd]
Definition
(n.) Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.
(n.) Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other.
(a.) Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Relationship, affinity, consanguinity.[2]. Relations, relatives, kin, kinsfolk, kinsmen.
a. Related, cognate, allied, kin, congenial, akin, of the same kind, of the same nature, of the same family.
Checker: Wilmer
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See KIN]
SYN:Congenial, allied, cogitate, akin, related
ANT:Uncongenial, unallied, unrelated
Editor: Paula
Definition
n. relationship by blood less properly by marriage: relatives: (pl. B.) families.—adj. related: congenial.
Edited by Faye
Unserious Contents or Definition
From Eng. kin, meaning relation, and dread, meaning fear; fearful relations.
Edited by Bernice
Examples
- I saw her laid low in her kindred vaults, And her immortal part with angels lives. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- These pagan Saxons and English of the mainland and their kindred from Denmark and Norway are the Danes and Northmen of our national histories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I would see your Saxon kindred together, Sir Wilfred, and become better acquainted with them than heretofore. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We have noted how the Keltic peoples drizzled westward, how the Italians, the Greeks, and their Epirote, Macedonian, and Phrygian kindred came south. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His office was filled with stacks of books all relating to metaphysics and kindred matters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Many republicans wanted it because they wished to see the kindred people of Belgium liberated from the Austrian yoke. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have already told the tale of Cnossos (Chapter XVII) and of the settlement of the kindred Philistines in Palestine (Chapter XXI, § 1). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- About it at great distances circle not only our earth, but certain kindred bodies called the planets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And next, shall we enquire whether the kindred science also concerns us? Plato. The Republic.
- A kindred sort of vessel grew up by the use of skins and hides expanded upon a wicker framework. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have kindred in Wisconsin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And it would be astonishing to find how soon the change is felt if we had no kindred changes to compare with it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At this point it may be well to cite some other statements of Edison as to kindred work, with which he has not usually been associated in the public mind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Help for the Bastille prisoner's kindred in La Force! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
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