KINDRED
Dictionary entry overview: What does kindred mean?
• KINDRED (noun)
The noun KINDRED has 1 sense:
1. group of people related by blood or marriage
Familiarity information: KINDRED used as a noun is very rare.
• KINDRED (adjective)
The adjective KINDRED has 2 senses:
1. similar or related in quality or character
2. related by blood or marriage
Familiarity information: KINDRED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• KINDRED (noun)
Meaning:
Group of people related by blood or marriage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
clan; kin group; kindred; kinship group; kin; tribe
Hypernyms ("kindred" is a kind of...):
social group (people sharing some social relation)
Meronyms (members of "kindred"):
relation; relative (a person related by blood or marriage)
clan member; clansman; clanswoman (a member of a clan)
tribesman (someone who lives in a tribe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kindred"):
mishpachah; mishpocha ((Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends))
family; family unit (primary social group; parents and children)
folks (your parents)
family tree; genealogy (successive generations of kin)
totem (a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object)
Tribes of Israel; Twelve Tribes of Israel (twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob)
• KINDRED (adjective)
Meaning:
Similar or related in quality or character
Synonyms:
akin; kindred; related
Context examples:
a feeling akin to terror / kindred souls / the amateur is closely related to the collector
Similar:
similar (marked by correspondence or resemblance)
Meaning:
Related by blood or marriage
Context example:
kindred clans
Similar:
related (connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage)
