Kindred

English

Noun

Kindred pl.

1. Distant and close relatives, collectively.
2. Peoples of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren.

Synonyms

• (people of same ethnic descent): brethren, kinship

Noun

Kindred (plural Kindreds)

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

Synonyms

• Hearth
• Garth
• Stead

External links

• Wikipedia article on Ásatrú Kindreds

Adjective

Kindred (not comparable)

1. Of the same nature.
   • 1924, Aristotle, Metaphysics, translated by W. D. Ross, Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, book 1, part 1.

     We have said in the Ethics what the difference is between art and science and the other kindred faculties;

Thesaurus

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĭndrəd, IPA: /kɪndrəd/, SAMPA: /kIndr@d/

Etymology

From Middle English kindrede, alteration (with epenthetic d) of kinrede, cünreden (“kindred”), from Old English cynrēd, cynrǣden (“kindred, family, generation, posterity, stock, species”), from cynn (“kind, sort, quality, race, family, rank, gender”) + -rǣden (“condition, state”), equivalent to kin. More at kin.

Translations

Noun

relatives

Dutch: verwanten (nl)

Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas (gd) m.

people of same ethnic descent

Dutch: soortgenoten (nl)

Adjective

of the same nature

Dutch: gelijkaardig (nl)

Portuguese: semelhante (pt)

Anagrams

• drinked