kind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kīnd
ipa: /kaɪnd/
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: kinds
form: kinde
form: kynd
form: kynde
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.
Senses: examples: text: What kind of (a) person are you?
text: This is a strange kind of tobacco.
text: How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shews his powre in variable kinds !
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1:
text: “[…] 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. […]”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: 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).
ref: 2022, James Dominic Rooney, Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics, page 166:
glosses: A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
examples: text: The opening served as a kind of window.
text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
examples: text: Must yt nedes folowe that theyr fayth was chaunged in kynde, bycause yt was augmented in degrees.
ref: 1533, Thomas More, The second parte of the confutacion of Tyndals answere in whyche is also confuted the chyrche that Tyndale deuyseth:
text: The generall woorde, is spoken of many, that differ either in kynd, or els in nombre.
ref: 1551, Thomas Wilson, The rule of reason, conteinyng the arte of logique:
text: 'Tis all one..whether our Afflictions be the same with those of others, in Kind, or not Superiour to them in Degree.
ref: 1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects. Whereto is premis'd a Discourse about such kind of thoughts:
text: He also argued powerfully, if less influentially, that animals' and humans' capacities differ largely in degree and not in kind.
ref: 2002, D. DeGrazia, Animal Rights:
glosses: One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
examples: text: My young love said to me, My mother won’t mind
And my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind.
ref: "She Moved through the Fair" (traditional Irish folk song)
glosses: Family, lineage.
glosses: Manner.
examples: text: Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.
ref: 1691, John Dryden, Prologue to King Arthur:
glosses: Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
examples: text: I'll pay in kind for his insult.
glosses: Equivalent means used as response to an action.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
examples: text: The kind of any primitive data type is *, corresponding to a nullary constructor.
qualifier: type theory
glosses: The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
examples: text: Fish kind was what she ate then.
ref: 1998, Easton Lee, From Behind the Counter: Poems from a Rural Jamaican Experience:
text: The farmers had plenty of ground provisions, but there was no "meat kind."
ref: 2005 January 1, Michaeline A. Crichlow, Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 116:
text: They can be served with fried fish, chicken, ackee and salt fish or other meat kind, as well as eaten separately as a treat.
ref: 2013 06, Wellesley Gayle, The Jamaica Insider Guide, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Food in a particular category.
Synonyms: genre
sort
type
derivative
generation
offspring
child
Derived terms: any old kind of way
blood kind
breadkind
error of the first kind
error of the second kind
first-of-its-kind
five-of-a-kind
five of a kind
four of a kind
four-of-a-kind
grant-in-kind
grant in kind
in-kind
in kind
-kind
kinda
kind of
kind of like
many-kinded
of a kind
of its kind
one kind
one-of-a-kind
one of a kind
perpetual motion machine of the first kind
perpetual motion machine of the second kind
some kind of
Stirling number of the second kind
subkind
three-of-a-kind
three of a kind
two-of-a-kind
two of a kind
underkind
what kind of
what kind of music do you like
Related terms: kin
kindhood
kindred
kinship