kind
/kaɪnd/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.45 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
noun
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
noun
Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
Example Sentences
- "What kind of (a) person are you?"
- "What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon."
- "Neither of them is the marrying kind."
- "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)."
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.