kindred

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 +‎ -red. More at kin.

• enPR: ˈkĭndrĭd, ˈkĭndrəd, IPA^(key): /ˈkɪndɹɪd/, /ˈkɪndɹəd/

kindred (plural kindreds)

1. (often plural only) Distant and close relatives, collectively; kin. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (often plural only) People of the same ethnic descent, not including speaker; brethren. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (countable) A grouping of relatives.
   • Shakespeare

     I think there's no man is secure / But the queen's kindred.

4. (uncountable) Blood relationship.
5. (uncountable) Affinity, likeness.

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

kindred (plural kindreds)

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

• Hearth
• Garth
• Stead

• Wikipedia article on Ásatrú Kindreds

kindred (not comparable)

1. Of the same nature, or of similar character.
   • 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;

2. Connected, related, cognate, akin.

   kindred tongues

• See also Thesaurus:akin

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