Kindred

kindred
    adj 1: similar in quality or character; "a feeling akin to
           terror"; "kindred souls"; "the amateur is closely related
           to the collector" [syn: {akin(p)}, {kindred}]
    2: related by blood or marriage; "kindred clans"
    n 1: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: {kin},
         {kin group}, {kinship group}, {kindred}, {clan}, {tribe}]
    

Kindred \Kin"dred\, a.
   Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as,
   kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.
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         True to the kindred points of heaven and home.
                                                  --Wordsworth.
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Kindred \Kin"dred\, n. [OE. kinrede, kynrede, kunreden (with
   excrescent d), fr. AS. cynn kin, race + the termination
   -r[=ae]den, akin to AS. r[=ae]dan to advise, G. rathen. Cf.
   {Hatred}.]
   1. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity;
      affinity; kin.
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            Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. --Dryden.
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   2. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former;
      relations; persons related to each other.
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            I think there's no man is secure
            But the queen's kindred.              --Shak.

   Syn: Kin; kinsfolk; relatives; kinsmen; relations;
        relationship; affinity.
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Kindred, ND (city, FIPS 42780)
  Location: 46.65093 N, 97.02106 W
  Population (1990): 569 (246 housing units)
  Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 58051
    

Kindred, ND -- U.S. city in North Dakota
   Population (2000):    614
   Housing Units (2000): 267
   Land area (2000):     0.997934 sq. miles (2.584637 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.997934 sq. miles (2.584637 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            42780
   Located within:       North Dakota (ND), FIPS 38
   Location:             46.647973 N, 97.016486 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     58051
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Kindred, ND
    Kindred
    

123 Moby Thesaurus words for "kindred":
      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