| 单词 | kindred |
| 释义 | kindred (once / 555 pages) nadj Your kindred are your people. If you say are going to visit your kindred during the holidays, that means you are going to visit your relatives. The word kindred can be used as either an adjective or a noun. The noun version is somewhat archaic — you are more likely to encounter this word in classic literature than in casual conversation. You may be more familiar with the adjective version of the word, which has gained popular usage in the term “kindred spirit” or “kindred soul,” which is used to describe those who share similar attitudes, characteristics, or beliefs. WORD FAMILYkindred: kindreds USAGE EXAMPLESMaybe he hopes Mr. Putin will see him as a kindred spirit: Big hombre, instinctive nationalist, zero use for liberals and their pieties. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) This sense of kindred spirits applies to the actors, too, as many of their colleagues insist. New York Times(Dec 21, 2016) “We’re kindred spirits, for sure,” said Mr. Devereux, a professor at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. New York Times(Dec 12, 2016) 1n group of people related by blood or marriage Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper clan, kin, kin group, kinship group, tribe Bronte sisters a 19th century family of three sisters who all wrote novels Marx Brothersa family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor mishpachah, mishpocha (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends) family, family unitprimary social group; parents and children folksyour parents family tree, genealogysuccessive generations of kin totema clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object Tribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israeltwelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob couple, match, matesa pair of people who live together man and wife, marriage, married coupletwo people who are married to each other ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stockthe descendants of one individual Lost Tribesthe ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin) social group people sharing some social relation 2adj related by blood or marriage kindred clans Syn related connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage 3adj similar in quality or character kindred souls Syn akin similar marked by correspondence or resemblance |
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