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kindred

/kin-drid/US // ˈkɪn drɪd //UK // (ˈkɪndrɪd) //

亲属,亲属关系,亲缘关系,亲情

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person's relatives collectively; kinfolk; kin.
    • : a group of persons related to another; family, tribe, or clan.
    • : relationship by birth or descent, or sometimes by marriage; kinship.
    • : natural relationship; affinity.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : associated by origin, nature, qualities, etc.: kindred languages.
    • : having the same belief, attitude, or feeling: We are kindred spirits on the issue of gun control.
    • : related by birth or descent; having kinship: kindred tribes.
    • : belonging to kin or relatives: kindred blood.

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Examples

  • Haitians held an elaborate funeral in absentia for the abolitionist John Brown, who they saw as a kindred spirit.

  • Russell even dedicates the book to the memory of her own mother, who, she says, saw Roosevelt as a role model and had a kindred creative and intellectual energy.

  • Ordinarily that would be true, but, in a stroke of good luck, my girlfriend is a kindred spirit.

  • I hope we remember we don’t have to make a case for how alike we are to be kindred.

  • He encountered new vistas and met future collaborators, including Michael Atiyah, a kindred spirit whose mathematical homes in algebraic geometry and topology perfectly complemented Is’ expertise in differential geometry and analysis.

  • I learned some things from my younger self—the adventurous, kindred spirit.

  • So, to take his mind off things, he logs into a phone sex chatroom and connects with a woman whom he thinks is a kindred spirit.

  • Just me, my 95-year-old dad, and tens of thousands of our kindred spirits.

  • When I realized that I had a committed group of readers—kindred spirits, really—with whom I could share things.

  • Kramer and Billy are kindred spirits, but Kramer accuses Billy of being blinded by the seductions of capitalism.

  • The exile too, far from home and kindred smokes on as he muses of happier hours gone never to return.

  • Of the Feralia of February 21, the culmination of the festival of the kindred dead (Parentalia), we have already spoken.

  • Lady Laura had been away from her own home and kindred some twelve years, and it seemed to her half a lifetime.

  • The third largest employer of workers engaged in manufacturing is the food and kindred products industry.

  • From the original social group another and closer community seems gradually to have developed, the group of kindred.