kind en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /kaɪnd/
- kīnd
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.
Meanings
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A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
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 (the essence of human being), nor is Hook merely that which makes him a member of the kind or all his parts human (his soul).
2022, James Dominic Rooney, Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics, page 166:What kind of (a) person are you?
What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon.
“[…] 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. […]”
1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:Neither of them is the marrying kind.
How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shews his powre in variable kinds !
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1:
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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.
1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
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(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.
1533, Thomas More, The second parte of the confutacion of Tyndals answere in whyche is also confuted the chyrche that Tyndale deuyseth:'Tis all one..whether our Afflictions be the same with those of others, in Kind, or not Superiour to them in Degree.
1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects. Whereto is premis'd a Discourse about such kind of thoughts:He also argued powerfully, if less influentially, that animals' and humans' capacities differ largely in degree and not in kind.
2002, D. DeGrazia, Animal Rights:The generall woorde, is spoken of many, that differ either in kynd, or els in nombre.
1551, Thomas Wilson, The rule of reason, conteinyng the arte of logique:
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(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.
"She Moved through the Fair" (traditional Irish folk song)
- (archaic) Manner.
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Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
1691, John Dryden, Prologue to King Arthur:I don't have any money but I can pay in kind by washing the dishes.
in kind
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Equivalent means used as response to an action.
I'll pay in kind for his insult.
in kind
- Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
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(qualifier:type theory) 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.
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(Caribbean, in-compounds) Food in a particular category.
They can be served with fried fish, chicken, ackee and salt fish or other meat kind, as well as eaten separately as a treat.
2013 06, Wellesley Gayle, The Jamaica Insider Guide, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 30:The farmers had plenty of ground provisions, but there was no "meat kind."
2005 January 1, Michaeline A. Crichlow, Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 116:Fish kind was what she ate then.
1998, Easton Lee, From Behind the Counter: Poems from a Rural Jamaican Experience:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| kynde | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| kinds | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| kynd | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic | |
| kinde | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic |
Deriveds
kinda · of a kind · four-of-a-kind · what kind of music do you like · Stirling number of the second kind · five-of-a-kind · kind of · one kind · one-of-a-kind · what kind of · error of the second kind · of its kind · one of a kind · in kind · kind of like · some kind of · four of a kind · -kind · underkind · grant-in-kind · in-kind · error of the first kind · perpetual motion machine of the second kind · perpetual motion machine of the first kind · two of a kind · three-of-a-kind · five of a kind · first-of-its-kind · any old kind of way · breadkind · grant in kind · blood kind · three of a kind · two-of-a-kind · subkind · many-kinded
Relateds
kindred · kinship · kin · kindhood
Synonyms
offspring · type · derivative · generation · sort · genre · child
Translations (183)
fi laatu (type, race, category) · jv warni (type, race, category) · es género (type, race, category) · pt raça (type, race, category) · tr tür (type, race, category) · ru су́щность (character or nature) · cy math (type, race, category) · sv sorts (atypical specimen) · ota جنس (type, race, category) · lv šķirne (type, race, category) · ru приро́да (character or nature) · da slags (type, race, category) · fa نوع (type, race, category) · sv typ (type, race, category) · bg раса (type, race, category) · hu típus (type, race, category) · ko 종류 (type, race, category) · pt tipo (type, race, category) · sq lloj (type, race, category) · ka ჯიში (type, race, category) · it stampo (character or nature) · pa ਕਿਸਮ (type, race, category) · te జాతి (type, race, category) · pa ਵਰਗ (type, race, category) · jv rupa (type, race, category) · mn төрөл зүйл (type, race, category) · nl natuur (character or nature) · hu valami (atypical specimen) · nl soort (atypical specimen) · ro fel (type, race, category) · mn зүйл (type, race, category) · fi -lainen (character or nature) · et liik (type, race, category) · pt classe (type, race, category) · ru сорт (type, race, category) · fa خیم (character or nature) · da natur (character or nature) · es rubro (type, race, category) · sv art (type, race, category) · km ប្រភេទ (type, race, category) · fi eräänlainen (atypical specimen) · ga gné (type, race, category) · ca classe (type, race, category) · ja 種類 (type, race, category) · eo speco (type, race, category) · nds Art (type, race, category) · es laya (type, race, category) · es forma (type, race, category) · fi laatu (character or nature) · gd seòrsa (type, race, category) · ms jenis (type, race, category) · gd gnè (type, race, category) · bn প্রজাতি (type, race, category) · lt rūšis (type, race, category) · te రకము (type, race, category) · vi loại (type, race, category) · lo ຊະນິດ (type, race, category) · pl rodzaj (character or nature) · sq soj (type, race, category) · ru род (type, race, category) · ru вид (type, race, category) · pt categoria (type, race, category) · yue 類 /类 (type, race, category) · ru разнови́дность (type, race, category) · fi luokka (type, race, category) · grc εἶδος (type, race, category) · my မျိုး (type, race, category) · fi jonkinlainen (atypical specimen) · tl uri (type, race, category) · eu tipo (type, race, category) · ro gen (type, race, category) · nl aard (character or nature) · de Sorte (type, race, category) · it tipo (type, race, category) · no slag (type, race, category) · hy տեսակ (type, race, category) · ka ტიპი (type, race, category) · bg сорт (type, race, category) · fi luonne (character or nature) · uk тип (type, race, category) · la genus (type, race, category) · it specie (atypical specimen) · so nooc (type, race, category) · es índole (type, race, category) · ar نوع (type, race, category) · lb Genre (type, race, category) · ckb جۆڕ (type, race, category) · fi -lainen (type, race, category) · bg качество (character or nature) · ru ка́чество (character or nature) · nl soort (type, race, category) · sga cenéle (type, race, category) · bug jinisi (type, race, category) · hi प्रकार (type, race, category) · lb Zort (type, race, category) · fi tyyppi (type, race, category) · es calaña (type, race, category) · bg вид (type, race, category) · om gosa (type, race, category) · th ประเภท (type, race, category) · jv jinis (type, race, category) · mak jinisi (type, race, category) · it risma (character or nature) · lt veislė (type, race, category) · ota چشید (type, race, category) · mt razza (type, race, category) · ka სახეობა (type, race, category) · fr sorte (type, race, category) · mnc ᡥᠠᠴᡳᠨ (type, race, category) · nl type (type, race, category) · ota نوع (type, race, category) · pl rodzaj (type, race, category) · ota فن (type, race, category) · ga sórt (type, race, category) · cmn 類 /类 (type, race, category) · hi तरह (type, race, category) · haw ʻano (type, race, category) · af tipe (type, race, category) · th อย่าง (type, race, category) · af soort (type, race, category) · sv slag (type, race, category) · hi दयालु (type, race, category) · ur نوع (type, race, category) · is tegund (type, race, category) · th ชนิด (type, race, category) · he מִין (type, race, category) · mr प्रकार (type, race, category) · pdt Sort (type, race, category) · ota صوی (type, race, category) · lv veids (type, race, category) · pl rasa (type, race, category) · pt género (type, race, category) · ca tipus (character or nature) · vec sòrta (type, race, category) · fr acabit (type, race, category) · lb Aart (type, race, category) · de Art (type, race, category) · es estofa (type, race, category) · fa تیپ (type, race, category) · pl typ (character or nature) · it genere (type, race, category) · fa گونه (type, race, category) · bg порода (type, race, category) · fi laji (type, race, category) · da art (type, race, category) · sv sort (type, race, category) · it tacca (character or nature) · pl autorament (type, race, category) · mi kano (type, race, category) · eu genero (type, race, category) · bg разновидност (character or nature) · vec sòrt (type, race, category) · ru хара́ктер (character or nature) · nl slag (character or nature) · pl typ (type, race, category) · as ধৰণ (type, race, category) · izh sorttu (type, race, category) · is eins konar (atypical specimen) · jv bangsa (type, race, category) · de Art (atypical specimen) · jv warna (type, race, category) · fr genre (type, race, category) · ru тип (type, race, category) · mn төрөл (type, race, category) · swb aina (type, race, category) · hu fajta (type, race, category) · es ralea (can be pejorative) (type, race, category) · eu klase (type, race, category) · ota صنف (type, race, category) · sw aina (atypical specimen) · es jaez (type, race, category) · et sort (type, race, category) · lv suga (type, race, category) · et tõug (type, race, category) · ga saghas (atypical specimen) · ga cineál (atypical specimen) · ca tipus (type, race, category) · rup soie (type, race, category) · is gerð (type, race, category) · ca gènere (type, race, category) · gld хачин (type, race, category) · uk вид (type, race, category) · bn প্রকার (type, race, category)