|
|
Definition of Kindred
1. Adjective. Similar in quality or character. "The amateur is closely related to the collector"
2. Noun. Group of people related by blood or marriage.
Generic synonyms: Social Group
Specialized synonyms: Mishpachah, Mishpocha, Family, Family Unit, Folks, Family Tree, Genealogy, Totem, Tribes Of Israel, Twelve Tribes Of Israel
Member holonyms: Relation, Relative, Clan Member, Clansman, Clanswoman, Tribesman
Derivative terms: Kin, Kinship, Tribal
3. Adjective. Related by blood or marriage. "Kindred clans"
Definition of Kindred
1. n. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.
2. a. Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.
Definition of Kindred
1. Noun. Distant and close relatives, collectively. ¹
2. Noun. Peoples of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren. ¹
3. Noun. A combination of extended family and religious group, of the Ásatrú religious order in America. ¹
4. Adjective. Of the same nature. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kindred
1. a natural grouping [n -S]
Medical Definition of Kindred
1. 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) Synonym: Kin, kinsfolk, relatives, kinsmen, relations, relationship, affinity. Origin: OE. Kinrede, kynrede, kunreden (with excrescent d), fr. AS. Cunn kin, race + the termination, akin to AS. Dan to advise, G. Rathen. Cf. Hatred. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kindred
Literary usage of Kindred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"... so remain; may they never any more wave over opposing hosts, or be stained
with blood which was kindred, is kindred, and always will be kindred, ..."
2. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"I am not clear what Major Powell means when he writes : " Where the elan "
organization prevails all other kindred are recognized, together with the elan ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(b) Bastards have no collateral kindred.—I249! As bastards cannot be heirs
themselves, so neither can they have any heirs but those of their own bodies. ..."
4. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"The Again, if we accept the common saying that the land-owning kindred as . ...
Again, when the ' kindred' of a lordless man is ordered to find 1 See the ..."
5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1875)
"INFLUENCE OF DEMOCRACY ON kindred. I HAVE just examined the changes which ...
I would now go deeper, and inquire into the closer ties of kindred: my object ..."
Other Resources:
