kind
Forms
- Plural
- kinds
- Comparative
- kinder
- Superlative
- kindest
Definitions
1.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?
- Neither of them is the marrying kind.
- 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.
3.Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
- 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.
- I'll pay in kind for his insult.
1.Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
2.Affectionate.
- Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, / The love he bore to learning was in fault.
3.Favorable.
4.Mild, gentle, forgiving
- The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #256
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Very common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
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”).