KINDRED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kindred mean? 

• KINDRED (noun)
  The noun KINDRED has 1 sense:

1. group of people related by blood or marriage

  Familiarity information: KINDRED used as a noun is very rare.

• KINDRED (adjective)
  The adjective KINDRED has 2 senses:

1. similar in quality or character

2. related by blood or marriage

  Familiarity information: KINDRED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINDRED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Group of people related by blood or marriage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

clan; kin; kin group; kindred; kinship group; tribe

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)

• KINDRED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Similar in quality or character

Synonyms:

akin; kindred

Context example:

the amateur is closely related to the collector

Similar:

similar (marked by correspondence or resemblance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Related by blood or marriage

Context example:

kindred clans

Similar:

related (connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage)

Derivation:

kindred (group of people related by blood or marriage)

 Context examples 

He was never married, and had no near kindred but ourselves and one other person, not more closely related than we.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They had voiced a kindred intellect and spirit, and as such I had received them into a camaraderie of the mind; but now their place was in my heart.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In a way, it spoke a kindred speech.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The excellent papa labored under the delusion that he was, and reveled in long discussions with the kindred spirit, till a chance remark of his more observing grandson suddenly enlightened him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Hunting and kindred outdoor delights had kept down the fat and hardened his muscles; and to him, as to the cold-tubbing races, the love of water had been a tonic and a health preserver.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And when I came to you, that night, to lay down all my load of shame and grief, and knew that I had to tell that, underneath your roof, one of my own kindred, to whom you had been a benefactor, for the love of me, had spoken to me words that should have found no utterance, even if I had been the weak and mercenary wretch he thought me—my mind revolted from the taint the very tale conveyed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Sir Thomas's parental solicitude and high sense of honour and decorum, Edmund's upright principles, unsuspicious temper, and genuine strength of feeling, made her think it scarcely possible for them to support life and reason under such disgrace; and it appeared to her that, as far as this world alone was concerned, the greatest blessing to every one of kindred with Mrs. Rushworth would be instant annihilation.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The boy had, with the additional softening claim of a lingering illness of his mother's, been the means of a sort of reconciliation; and Mr. and Mrs. Churchill, having no children of their own, nor any other young creature of equal kindred to care for, offered to take the whole charge of the little Frank soon after her decease.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

'This young gentleman is blessed, in a peculiar way, with every thing the heart of mortal can most desire,—splendid property, noble kindred, and extensive patronage. Yet in spite of all these temptations, let me warn my cousin Elizabeth, and yourself, of what evils you may incur by a precipitate closure with this gentleman's proposals, which, of course, you will be inclined to take immediate advantage of.'

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Alliance by blood, or marriage, is a frequent cause of war between princes; and the nearer the kindred is, the greater their disposition to quarrel; poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)