kindred spirit
a person with whom you have a lot in common
TRANSLATION
kindred spirit = Seelenverwandte/r --- GOOGLE INDEX kindred spirit: approximately 3,300,000 Google hits
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President Obama once said that Australians and Americans were KINDRED SPIRITS because of their common language, love of democracy, pioneer spirit and love of wide open spaces.
BCC News
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Esther Anderson, the co-founder of Island Records, first heard him sing in a hotel room in Kingston in 1972, she knew she had not seen the likes of Bob Marley before. She also knew that she had found a KINDRED SPIRIT: someone who shared her love of Rastafarianism
The Economist
BCC News
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Esther Anderson, the co-founder of Island Records, first heard him sing in a hotel room in Kingston in 1972, she knew she had not seen the likes of Bob Marley before. She also knew that she had found a KINDRED SPIRIT: someone who shared her love of Rastafarianism
The Economist
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kindred spirit
noun phrase
- a person who has the same opinions, feelings and interests as you
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The words "kindred" and "spirit" both arose from the 13th century. Kindred evolved from the Old English "kinraden," which itself came from the word raeden, meaning to "condition" or "rule." Spirit has its roots in the Old French word, "espirit."
The word kindred generally refers to family or relatives, while spirit has many meanings, including the original version of the word, espirit, meaning "soul, courage, vigour and breath." The term "kindred spirit" itself has an unclear history in terms of its first usage.
The expression kindred spirit is used in various cultures to describe close friends and lovers. The great English poet John Keats wrote about kindred spirits in "Sonnet To Solitude":
Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind,
Whose words are images of thought refined,
Is my soul’s pleasure; and it sure must be
Almost the highest bliss of human-kind,
When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.
Though kindred spirits can be the product of romance, such as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert or Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, many times the relationships are true bonds of friendship or simply a deep common interest in something. As was the case with Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the founders of Microsoft, and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two kindred spirits had a significant impact on how we live and work.
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SYNONYMS
soul mate, kindred soul, partner, alter ego
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Wishing you a great new year start and lots of good luck throughout 2018.
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noun phrase
- a person who has the same opinions, feelings and interests as you
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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The words "kindred" and "spirit" both arose from the 13th century. Kindred evolved from the Old English "kinraden," which itself came from the word raeden, meaning to "condition" or "rule." Spirit has its roots in the Old French word, "espirit."
The word kindred generally refers to family or relatives, while spirit has many meanings, including the original version of the word, espirit, meaning "soul, courage, vigour and breath." The term "kindred spirit" itself has an unclear history in terms of its first usage.
The expression kindred spirit is used in various cultures to describe close friends and lovers. The great English poet John Keats wrote about kindred spirits in "Sonnet To Solitude":
Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind,
Whose words are images of thought refined,
Is my soul’s pleasure; and it sure must be
Almost the highest bliss of human-kind,
When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.
Though kindred spirits can be the product of romance, such as Queen Victoria and Prince Albert or Cleopatra and Mark Anthony, many times the relationships are true bonds of friendship or simply a deep common interest in something. As was the case with Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the founders of Microsoft, and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two kindred spirits had a significant impact on how we live and work.
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SYNONYMS
soul mate, kindred soul, partner, alter ego
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"We knew we were kindred spirits the first time we met."
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Wishing you a great new year start and lots of good luck throughout 2018.
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