Definitions for kindred
ˈkɪn drɪdkin·dred

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribeadjective

   group of people related by blood or marriage

2. akin(p), kindredadjective

   similar in quality or character

   "a feeling akin to terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely related to the collector"

3. kindredadjective

   related by blood or marriage

   "kindred clans"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. kindrednoun

   A combination of extended family and religious group, of the Ásatrú religious order in America.

2. kindrednoun

   Distant and close relatives, collectively.

3. kindrednoun

   Peoples of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.

4. kindredadjective

   Of the same nature.

5. Etymology: From kindrede, alteration (with epenthetic d) of kinrede, cunreden, from cynred, cynræden, from cynn + -ræden, equivalent to. More at kin.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Kindredadjective

   Congeneal; related; cognate.

   From Tuscan Coritum he claim’d his birth;
   But after, when exempt from mortal earth,
   From thence ascended to his kindred skies
   A god. Dryden.

2. Kindrednoun

   Etymology: from kin; cynrene , Saxon

   1. Relation by birth or marriage; cognation; affinity.

   Like her, of equal kindred to the throne,
   You keep her conquests, and extend your own. Dryden.

   2. Relation; sort.

   His horse hipp’d with an old mothy saddle, and the stirrups of no kindred. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew.

   3. Relatives.

   I think there is no man secure
   But the queen’s kindred. William Shakespeare, Richard III.

   Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt
   Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign,
   Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain. Denham.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Kindrednoun

   relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin

2. Kindrednoun

   relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other

3. Kindredadjective

   related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Kindred

   In the Heathen movements, a kindred is a local worship group and organizational unit. Other terms used are hearth, theod, blotgroup, sippe, and other less popular ones such as garth, stead, church, and others. Kindreds are usually grassroots groups, most of which are independent from any other organization. Rarely through, a kindred may be affiliated with a national organization such as the Ásatrú Alliance, or The Troth, rather than the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly or the Odinic Rite. Independent kindreds are more typical within the US than elsewhere.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Kindred

   kin′dred, n. relationship by blood, less properly, by marriage: relatives: (pl., B.) families.—adj. related: congenial. [M. E. kinrede—A.S. cynn, kin, and the suffix -ræden, expressing mode or state.]

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. KINDRED

   From Eng. _kin_, meaning relation, and _dread_, meaning fear; fearful relations.

Anagrams for kindred »

1. drinked

How to pronounce kindred?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of kindred in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of kindred in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of kindred in a Sentence

1. Walter E. Williams:

   Conservatives and liberals are kindred spirits as far as government spending is concerned. ... Since government has no resources of its own, and since there’s no Tooth Fairy handing Congress the funds for the programs it enacts, we are forced to recognize that government spending is no less than the confiscation of one person’s property to give it to another to whom it does not belong -- in effect, legalized theft.

2. Alan Watts:

   Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

3. Abraham Lincoln:

   It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

4. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal:

   We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

5. Marie de Rabutin-Chantal:

   We cannot destroy kindred Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

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