Definitions for kindred

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kindred kin·dred

Spelling: [kin-drid]

IPA: /ˈkɪn drɪd/

Kindred is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in kindred (ddeiknr).

Definitions for kindred

noun

1. a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
2. a group of persons related to another; family, tribe, or clan.
3. relationship by birth or descent, or sometimes by marriage; kinship.
4. natural relationship; affinity.

adjective

1. associated by origin, nature, qualities, etc.:
2. having the same belief, attitude, or feeling:
3. related by birth or descent; having kinship:
4. belonging to kin or relatives:

Origin of kindred

1125-75; Middle English, variant (with epenthetic d) of kinrede. See kin, -red

Examples for kindred

I learned some things from my younger self—the adventurous, kindred spirit.

Just me, my 95-year-old dad, and tens of thousands of our kindred spirits.

An American boy found a kindred spirit in the king of England and was inspired to fight this disorder.

So, to take his mind off things, he logs into a phone sex chatroom and connects with a woman whom he thinks is a kindred spirit.

The plains were fatherland and mother-country, home and kindred, to Tom.

The family affection of the Jew, his kindness to his kindred, have become proverbial.

With the insight of a kindred temperament he pronounced his verdict.

No one of our kindred must enter the family of Pericles as a slave.

If you be really of her kindred, I commend to you my brother: he is at ——, with Mr. Morton.

Kramer and Billy are kindred spirits, but Kramer accuses Billy of being blinded by the seductions of capitalism.