Word Meanings - KINDRED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

d), fr. AS. cunn kin, race + the termination to advise, G. rathen. 1. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin. Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. Dryden. 2. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former;

Additional info about word: KINDRED

d), fr. AS. cunn kin, race + the termination to advise, G. rathen. 1. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin. Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. Dryden. 2. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other. I think there's no man is secure But the queen's kindred. Shak. Syn. -- Kin; kinsfolk; relatives; kinsmen; relations; relationship; affinity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of KINDRED)

• Affinity
• Relationship
• relation
• kindred
• conformity
• connection
• alliance
• similarity
• analogy
• homogeneity
• harmony
• correlativeness
• sympathy
• interdependence
• interconnection
• intercommunity
• Congenial
• Natural
• concordant
• consonant
• grateful
• sympathetic
• Connection
• Junction
• junction
• union
• association
• concatenation
• affinity
• relevance
• intercourse
• communication
• Unarm an
• relationship
• Consanguinity
• Kindred
• blood
• lineage
• Germane
• Allied
• related
• homogeneous
• appropriate
• akin
• pertinent
• relative

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