kind

Meanings

Noun

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

Adjective

• Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
• Affectionate.
• Favorable.
• Mild, gentle, forgiving
• Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
• Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

Related

Similar words

• genre
• sort
• type
• derivative
• generation
• offspring
• child

Origin

• From Middle English kynde, kunde, cunde, icunde, from Old English cynd, ġecynd, from Proto-Germanic *kundiz, *gakundiz, related to *kunją. Cognate with Icelandic kind. gens, genesis, and jati. See also kin.
• From Middle English kinde, kunde, kende, from Old English cynde, ġecynde, from Old English cynd, ġecynd.