From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
kindred
adj 1: similar or related in quality or character; "a feeling akin
to terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely
related to the collector" [syn: {akin(p)}, related]
2: related by blood or marriage; "kindred clans"
n : group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin,
kin group, kinship group, clan, tribe]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Kindred \Kin"dred\, a.
Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as,
kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.
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True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
--Wordsworth.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Kindred \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.
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Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. --Dryden.
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2. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former;
relations; persons related to each other.
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I think there's no man is secure
But the queen's kindred. --Shak.
Syn: Kin; kinsfolk; relatives; kinsmen; relations;
relationship; affinity.
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