Type

Quick meaning: Type is a noun meaning A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

Meaning

A grouping based on shared characteristics; a class.

More Meanings

1. An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
2. An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
3. (printing, countable) A letter or character used for printing, historically a cast or engraved block.
4. Preferred sort of person; sort of person that one is attracted to.
5. (medicine) A blood group.
6. (corpus linguistics) A word that occurs in a text or corpus irrespective of how many times it occurs, as opposed to a token.
7. (taxonomy) Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.

Example Sentences

We can't get along: he's just not my type.

...thus Stearn has designated Linnaeus as the type specimen of Homo sapiens

This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane.

Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare.

Word Forms

• types
• typing
• typed

Synonyms for type

Depending on context, synonyms include category, class, genre, group, kind, nature.

Antonyms for type

Common opposites include antitype.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include character, typecast, case, typewrite, eccentric, class.

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