Kind
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /kaɪnd/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Kind is a noun meaning A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
Meaning
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
More Meanings
- A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
- 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.
- (archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
- (archaic) Family, lineage.
- (archaic) Manner.
Example Sentences
What kind of (a) person are you?
This is a strange kind of tobacco.
The opening served as a kind of window.
What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon.
Word Forms
- kinds
- kinde
- kinder
- kindest
Synonyms for kind
Depending on context, synonyms include genre, sort, type, derivative, generation, offspring.
Antonyms for kind
Common opposites include unkind.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sort, form, variety, good, helpful, charitable.
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