1. (n.) Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.

2. (n.) Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other.

3. (a.) Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.

affiliated affiliation affinal agnate agnation akin alliance allied analogous ancestry associated avuncular blood blood relation blood relationship blood relative brotherhood brothership clan clansman close closely related cognate cognation collateral collateral relative common common ancestry common descent congeneric congenerous connate connatural connection connections consanguine consanguinean consanguineous consanguinity cousinhood cousinship distaff side distant relation distantly related enate enation family fatherhood filiation flesh flesh and blood folk folks foster fraternity genetically related german germane house incident kin kinfolk kinnery kinsfolk kinship kinsman kinsmen kinswoman kith and kin like lineage matching maternity matrilateral matrilineage matrilineal matriliny matrisib matroclinous matrocliny motherhood near relation next of kin novercal of common source of the blood parallel paternity patrilateral patrilineage patrilineal patriliny patrisib patroclinous patrocliny people posterity propinquity race related related by blood relation relations relationship relatives sib sibling sibship similar sisterhood sistership spear kin spear side spindle kin spindle side stock sword side ties of blood tribe tribesman united uterine uterine kin