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kind

noun
/kaɪnd/

Etymology

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.

  1. inherited from *kinþiz✻
  2. inherited from *kundi✻
  3. inherited from cynd
  4. inherited from kynde

Definitions

  1. A type, race or category

    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?
    • This is a strange kind of tobacco.
    • What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon.

  2. A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

    • The opening served as a kind of window.
    • I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.

  3. One's inherent nature

    One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

    • Must yt nedes folowe that theyr fayth was chaunged in kynde, bycause yt was augmented in degrees.
    • The generall woorde, is spoken of many, that differ either in kynd, or els in nombre.
    • 'Tis all one..whether our Afflictions be the same with those of others, in Kind, or not Superiour to them in Degree.
  4. ›+ 13 more definitions

    1. Family, lineage.

      • My young love said to me, My mother won’t mind And my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind.

    2. Manner.

    3. 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.
      • Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.

    4. Equivalent means used as response to an action.

      • in kind
      • I'll pay in kind for his insult.

    5. Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.

    6. 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.

    7. Food in a particular category.

      • Fish kind was what she ate then.
      • The farmers had plenty of ground provisions, but there was no "meat kind."
      • They can be served with fried fish, chicken, ackee and salt fish or other meat kind, as well as eaten separately as a treat.

    8. Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or…

      Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.

      • Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.

    9. Affectionate.

      • a kind man; a kind heart
      • Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, / The love he bore to learning was in fault.

    10. Favorable.

      • Thy words aſſure me of kind ſucceſſe: / Go valiant Souldier, go before and charge / The fainting army of that foolish King.

    11. Mild, gentle, forgiving

      • The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.

    12. Gentle

      Gentle; tractable; easily governed.

      • a horse kind in harness

    13. Characteristic of the species

      Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

      • it becommeth sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind tast.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA