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KINDRED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Group of people related by blood or marriage
Synonyms:
clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("kindred" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Meronyms (members of "kindred"):
relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)
clan member; clansman; clanswoman (a member of a clan)
tribesman (someone who lives in a tribe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kindred"):
mishpachah; mishpocha ((Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends))
family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)
folks (your parents)
family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)
totem (a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object)
Tribes of Israel; Twelve Tribes of Israel (twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob)
Derivation:
kindred (related by blood or marriage)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Related by blood or marriage
Example:
kindred clans
Classified under:
Similar:
related (connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage)
Derivation:
kindred (group of people related by blood or marriage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Similar in quality or character
Example:
the amateur is closely related to the collector
Synonyms:
akin; kindred
Classified under:
Similar:
similar (marked by correspondence or resemblance)
Context examples:
And when the Hungarian flood swept eastward, the Szekelys were claimed as kindred by the victorious Magyars, and to us for centuries was trusted the guarding of the frontier of Turkey-land; ay, and more than that, endless duty of the frontier guard, for, as the Turks say, 'water sleeps, and enemy is sleepless.'
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
And I do not want a stranger—unsympathising, alien, different from me; I want my kindred: those with whom I have full fellow- feeling.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The women telegraphed their approval to one another, and Mr. March, feeling that he had got a kindred spirit, opened his choicest stores for his guest's benefit, while silent John listened and enjoyed the talk, but said not a word, and Mr. Laurence found it impossible to go to sleep.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Her penetrative virginity exalted and disguised his own emotions, elevating his thoughts to a star-cool chastity, and he would have been startled to learn that there was that shining out of his eyes, like warm waves, that flowed through her and kindled a kindred warmth.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I have no kindred to interfere.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
So happy, so gratified did I become with this new interest added to life, that I ceased to pine after kindred: my thin crescent-destiny seemed to enlarge; the blanks of existence were filled up; my bodily health improved; I gathered flesh and strength.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The elder one, whom you have seen (and whom I cannot hate, whilst I abhor all his kindred, because he has some grains of affection in his feeble mind, shown in the continued interest he takes in his wretched sister, and also in a dog-like attachment he once bore me), will probably be in the same state one day.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
