kindred
adjective/ˈkɪndrəd/
/ˈkɪndrəd/
[only before noun] (formal)- very similar; related
- food and kindred products
- I knew I’d found a kindred spirit (= a person with similar ideas, opinions, etc.).
Oxford Collocations DictionaryKindred is used with these nouns:- soul
- spirit
Word OriginMiddle English: from kin + -red (from Old English rǣden ‘condition’), with insertion of -d- in the modern spelling through phonetic development (as in thunder).Definitions on the go
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