Etimology
From Middle English kynde, kunde, cunde, icunde, 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
kind (plural kinds)
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
(archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
(archaic) Family, lineage.
(archaic) Manner.
Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
(Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
(type theory) The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
Examples
What kind of a person are you?
This is a strange kind of tobacco.
How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shews his powre in variable kinds !
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”
That in virtue of which all of his material parts are of the same kind human being is what makes those parts belong to Hook, but Hook is neither identical with his kind , nor is Hook merely that which makes him a member of the kind or all his parts human .
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.
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.
He also argued powerfully, if less influentially, that animals' and humans' capacities differ largely in degree and not in kind.
My young love said to me, My mother won’t mindAnd my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind.
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
I'll pay in kind for his insult.
The kind of any primitive data type is *, corresponding to a nullary constructor.
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genre
sort
type
derivative
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kin
kindhood
kindred
kinship
Etimology
From Middle English kinde, kunde, kende, from Old English cynde, ġecynde (“innate, natural, native”), from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“nature, kind”).
adjective
kind (comparative kinder, superlative kindest)
Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
Affectionate.
Favorable.
Mild, gentle, forgiving
Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
(obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
Examples
Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittiful.
a kind man; a kind heart
Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, / The love he bore to learning was in fault.
Thy words aſſure me of kind ſucceſſe:Go valiant Souldier, go before and chargeThe fainting army of that foolish King.
The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
a horse kind in harness
it becommeth sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind tast.
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See also Thesaurus:affectionate