kind
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
kind (plural kinds)
- A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
- What kind of a person are you?
- This is a strange kind of tobacco.
- How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shows his power in variable kinds !
- A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
- The opening served as a kind of window.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII
- 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.
- (archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:5.7?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter vij], in Le Morte Darthur, book III:
- And whan he cam ageyne he sayd / O my whyte herte / me repenteth that thow art dede / […] / and thy deth shalle be dere bought and I lyue / and anone he wente in to his chamber and armed hym / and came oute fyersly / & there mette he with syr gauayne / why haue ye slayne my houndes said syr gauayn / for they dyd but their kynde
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:5.7?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter vij], in Le Morte Darthur, book III:
- (archaic) Family, lineage.
- (archaic) Manner.
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.
- Equivalent means used as response to an action.
- I'll pay in kind for his insult.
- (Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
- genre
- sort
- type
- derivative
(1) and/or (2)
- generation
- offspring
- child
- See also Thesaurus:class
- French: genre, sorte, acabit
- German: Art, Sorte
- Italian: genere, tipo
- Portuguese: tipo, categoria, género, raça, classe
- Russian: вид
- Spanish: género, tipo, forma, clase
- French: nature
- Russian: нату́ра
kind (comparative kinder, superlative kindest)
- Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal#Adjective|liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature#Noun|nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
- c. 1588–1593, [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: Printed by Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, OCLC 222241046 ↗, [Act II, scene iii] ↗:
- Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittiful.
- Affectionate.
- a kind man; a kind heart
- Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, / The love he bore to learning was his fault.
- O cruel Death, to those you take more kind / Than to the wretched mortals left behind.
- Favorable.
- Mild, gentle, forgiving
- The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
- Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
- a horse kind in harness
- (obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:
- Ȝet haue I no kynde knowing quod I · ȝet mote ȝe kenne me better.
- It becometh sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind taste.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, I:
- See also Thesaurus:affectionate
- French: gentil, gentille
- German: freundlich, gütig, lieb, liebenswürdig, nett, aufmerksam
- Italian: gentile, carino
- Portuguese: amável
- Russian: до́брый
- Spanish: amable, bondadoso, gentil, cariñoso
- French: favorable
- German: lieb, liebenswürdig, nett
- Russian: благоприя́тный
- German: mild
- Russian: мя́гкий
- Russian: пода́тливый
- Russian: прису́щий
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