kind.
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
Meaning & usage
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
What kind of (a) person are you?
What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon.
A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
The opening served as a kind of window.
One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
Family, lineage.
Manner.
Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
in kind
I don't have any money but I can pay in kind by washing the dishes.
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
in kind
I'll pay in kind for his insult.
Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
The kind of any primitive data type is *, corresponding to a nullary constructor.
Food in a particular category.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English kynde, kinde, from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“inherent nature, disposition, kind, gender, generation, race”), from Proto-West Germanic *kundi, from Proto-Germanic *kinþiz, related to Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, kin”) and Old English cennan (“to bear, give birth”). Cognate with Old High German gikunt (“nature, kind”), Icelandic kind (“race, species, kind”). Doublet of gens, genesis, and jati. See also kin.
Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
Affectionate.
a kind man; a kind heart
Favorable.
Mild, gentle, forgiving
The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
a horse kind in harness
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English kynde, kinde, from Old English cynde, ġecynde (“innate, natural, native”), from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“nature, kind”).
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