Kind

/kaɪnd/ · noun

Meaning

A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together..

Definitions by Sense

1. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
2. A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
3. (archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
4. (archaic) Family, lineage.
5. (archaic) Manner.
6. Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
7. Equivalent means used as response to an action.
8. (Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.

Example Sentences

What kind of (a) person are you?

This is a strange kind of tobacco.

What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon.

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 (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).

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.

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Word Forms

• kinds
• kinde
• kynd
• kynde
• kinder
• kindest

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