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kind¹

  • /kaɪnd/

Rhymes with -aɪnd

Where it 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.

noun kinds · kinde · kynd · kynde

  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?
  2. A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen. The opening served as a kind of window.
  3. archaic One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition. Must yt nedes folowe that theyr fayth was chaunged in kynde, bycause yt was augmented in degrees.
  4. archaic 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.
  5. archaic Manner.
  6. Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter. in kind
  7. Equivalent means used as response to an action. in kind
  8. Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
  9. 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.
  10. Caribbean, in compounds Food in a particular category. Fish kind was what she ate then.

Similar: genre, sort, type, derivative, generation, offspring, child

kind²

  • /kaɪnd/

Rhymes with -aɪnd

Where it comes from

From Middle English kynde, kinde, from Old English cynde, ġecynde (“innate, natural, native”), from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“nature, kind”).

adjective kinder · kindest · kinde

  1. 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.
  2. Affectionate. a kind man; a kind heart
  3. Favorable. Thy words aſſure me of kind ſucceſſe: / Go valiant Souldier, go before and charge / The fainting army of that foolish King.
  4. Mild, gentle, forgiving The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
  5. Gentle; tractable; easily governed. a horse kind in harness
  6. obsolete 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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