Kindred

6 definitions found

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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Kindred, ND (city, FIPS 42780)
    Location: 46.65093 N, 97.02106 W
    Population (1990): 569 (246 housing units)
    Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 58051

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  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