Idioms

a kindred soul

a kindred soul

A person who shares several fundamental beliefs, ideas, convictions, sentiments, attitudes, or interests with oneself. It didn't take long to figure out that John is a kindred soul, and we've been the closest of friends ever since we met. I'm not surprised those two are engaged now—they always seemed like kindred souls. I've been volunteering in my community since I was a kid, so the first time I saw Jenn give an impassioned speech about the importance of community service, I knew she was a kindred soul.
See also: kindred, soul
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While Acres performed blessings of expectedly ironic things (master tapes, a poodle, Christian kitsch), another, clearly sincere, Christian artist came up, tears streaming down his cheeks, overjoyed to find a kindred soul. Here was an intersection one doesn't expect in postmodern art, a collision of faith and artifice.
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Olive Chancellor, representing a new generation of "do - gooders, " who thinks she has found a kindred soul in a beautiful and impressionable girl, Verena Tarrant.
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