From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englisha kindred spirita kindred spiritLIKE/SIMILARsomeone who thinks and feels the way you do → kindred
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a kindred spirit• He had realised as soon as he had employed Michael that he had found himself a kindred spirit.• In the then president, Sir Hugh Casson, he found a kindred spirit.• Juliet was grateful to find a kindred spirit among all these wealthy public-school-educated socialites.• I could also imagine the gentle but resolute Amsale recognizing a kindred spirit in Neil Brown.• No doubt she and Zahara had become friends because each recognised a kindred spirit in the other.• Certainly a kindred spirit lives on under the front-hinged bonnet.• I was different, to be sure, but he accepted me as a kindred spirit of sorts.• She recognised him as a kindred spirit, with the same happy-go-lucky, questing attitude to life which she herself possessed. 