Kindred

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  • noun. A group of related persons, as a clan or tribe.
  • noun. A person's relatives; kinfolk.
  • adjective. Of the same ancestry or family.
  • adjective. Having a similar or related origin, nature, or character.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Relationship by birth, marriage, or descent; consanguinity; kinship; affinity.
  • noun. Community in kind; intrinsic relationship or connection.
  • noun. In a plural sense, relatives by blood or descent, or, by extension, by marriage; a body of persons related to one another; relatives; kin.
  • noun. A tribe; a body of persons connected by a family or tribal bond: with a plural form.
  • Having kinship; allied by blood or descent; related as kin.
  • Pertaining to kinship; of related origin or character; hence, native; pertaining to nativity : as, to live under kindred skies.
  • Hence Congenial; allied; of like nature, qualities, etc.: as, kindred souls; kindred pursuits.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.
  • noun. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other.
  • adjective. Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Distant and close relatives, collectively.
  • noun. Peoples of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.
  • noun. A grouping of relatives.
  • noun. A combination of extended family and religious group, of the Ásatrú religious order in America.
  • adjective. Of the same nature.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. related by blood or marriage
  • noun. group of people related by blood or marriage
  • adjective. similar in quality or character
  • Word Usage
    "We just now parted off from the weaving of clothes, the making of blankets, which differ from each other in that one is put under and the other is put around: and these are what I termed kindred arts."
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