type
/taɪp/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
An individual considered typical of its class, one regarded as typifying a certain profession, environment, etc.
noun
An individual that represents the ideal for its class; an embodiment.
noun
Something, often a specimen, selected as an objective anchor to connect a scientific name to a taxon; this need not be representative or typical.
noun
A blood group.
Example Sentences
- "This type of plane can handle rough weather more easily than that type of plane."
- "Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are diamond, ruby and sapphire, emerald and other gem forms of the mineral beryl, chrysoberyl, tanzanite, tsavorite, topaz and jade."
- "Look, with these gals that want to buy it, most of them are older, dignified. Social Register types, you know what I mean? They can't be trotting down to Times Square to pick out the merchandise. They got to have some kind of, uh, middleman."
- ""I just peeked out toward the restaurant and there are a lot of Navy types in there. I'd hate for you to get in trouble on your last night in Europe.""
- "Altogether he was the type of low ruffianism — as ill-conditioned a looking brute as ever ginned a hare."
- "The headline was set in bold type."
Etymology
From Middle English type (“symbol, figure, emblem”), from Latin typus, from Ancient Greek τύπος (túpos, “mark, impression, type”), from τύπτω (túptō, “to strike, beat”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *(s)tewp-, type, typus, τύπος
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Computing.