Definition of Kindred

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Kindred

Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.

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

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

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Kindred Quotations

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.
Alan Watts

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
Octavia Butler

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
Jane Porter

I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.
Ray Harryhausen

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
J. Carter Brown

Kindred Translations

kindred in German is verwandt, gleichartig, verwandt
kindred in Norwegian is slektskap, beslektet

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