[syn: akin(p), kindred]
2. related by blood or marriage;
- Example: "kindred clans"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
kindred
adj 1: similar in quality or character; "a feeling akin to
terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely related
to the collector" [syn: akin(p), kindred]
2: related by blood or marriage; "kindred clans"
n 1: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin,
kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
123 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Kindred, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
Population (2000): 614
Housing Units (2000): 267
Land area (2000): 0.997934 sq. miles (2.584637 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.997934 sq. miles (2.584637 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42780
Located within: North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
Location: 46.647973 N, 97.016486 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 58051
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Kindred, ND
Kindred