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kindred spirit en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) Someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself.
   • I have sought but a kindred spirit to share it, and I have found such in thee. 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
   • He is a Trump kindred spirit who goads liberals, appeases Russian president Vladimir Putin and promotes the far-right “great replacement” theory that western elites are importing immigrant voters to supplant white people. 2023 January 2, David Smith, “2024 Veepstakes: who will Donald Trump choose as his running mate?”, in The Guardian:
   • But his fine qualities being perfectly understood and appreciated in those regions where his lot was cast, and where he had many kindred spirits to consort with, he may be regarded as having been born under a fortunate star, which is not always the case with a man so much before the age in which he lives. 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:
   • She found in her neighbor a good friend, gardening companion and kindred spirit.
   • He repeated to Chad what he had been saying in the court to Waymarsh; how there was no doubt whatever that his sister would find the latter a kindred spirit, no doubt of the alliance, based on an exchange of views, that the pair would successfully strike up. 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
2. Someone or something with which one feels connected.

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Relateds

soulmate

Translations (24)

de verwandter Geist (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · ru родственная душа́ (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · mk сродна душа (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · cmn 心心相印 (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · pl bratnia dusza (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · de Geistesverwandter (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · de Gleichgesinnte (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · sv själsfrände (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · it spirito affine (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · es alma gemela (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · is sálufélagi (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · pl pokrewna dusza (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · sv tvillingsjäl (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · nl zielsverwant (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · uk спорі́днена душа́ (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · fr âme sœur (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · eo samideano (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · pl przyjazna dusza (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · fi sukulaissielu (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · ga anamchara (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · sv likasinnad (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · de Gleichgesinnter (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · es media naranja (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself) · it anima gemella (someone with the same feelings or attitudes as oneself)