kindred
Other forms: kindreds
Your kindred are your people. If you say are going to visit your kindred during the holidays, that means you are going to visit your relatives.
The word kindred can be used as either an adjective or a noun. The noun version is somewhat archaic — you are more likely to encounter this word in classic literature than in casual conversation. You may be more familiar with the adjective version of the word, which has gained popular usage in the term “kindred spirit” or “kindred soul,” which is used to describe those who share similar attitudes, characteristics, or beliefs.
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group of people related by blood or marriage
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synonyms:
clan, kin, kin group, kinship group, tribe
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examples:
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Bronte sisters
a 19th century family of three sisters who all wrote novels
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Marx Brothers
a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor
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mishpachah, mishpocha
(Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends)
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family, family unit
primary social group; parents and children
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folks
your parents
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family tree, genealogy
successive generations of kin
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totem
a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
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Tribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israel
twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob
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couple, match, mates
a pair of people who live together
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man and wife, marriage, married couple
two people who are married to each other
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ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock
the descendants of one individual
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Lost Tribes
the ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin)
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type of:
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social group
people sharing some social relation
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Bronte sisters
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related by blood or marriage“kindred clans”
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Synonyms:
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related
connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage
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related
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similar in quality or character
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Vocabulary lists containing kindred
Eleven-year-old Louisa doesn't love change but explores new ways of looking at life when she visits her grandparents' farm on Deer Island and meets a boy named George.
Mr. Lemoncello invites teams from across the U.S. to compete in a first-ever Library Olympics, where they must solve puzzles and decipher clues to become champions of literature and his library.
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