kind
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kind (comparative kinder, superlative kindest)
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- Affectionate, showing benevolence.
- Favorable.
- mild, gentle, forgiving
- The years have been kind to Richard Gere, he ages well
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- See also Wikisaurus:affectionate
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Affectionate, nice
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favorable
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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.
- (now rare) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book III:
- why haue ye slayne my houndes said syr gauayne, for they dyd but their kynde [...].
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book III:
- A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
- The opening served as a kind of window.
- (idiomatic) Quite, rather, somewhat (as in He was kind of surprised.).
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(1) and/or (2)
- generation
- offspring
- child
- See also Wikisaurus:class
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type, race, category
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character or nature
atypical specimen
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[edit] Etymology 2
From kine (“‘cattle’”), from Middle English kyn, from Old English cȳna, when cattle were a means of exchange.
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kind (uncountable)
- In goods or services (as in barter), rather than money (as in pay in kind).
- By the same means (as in I'll pay in kind for his insult).
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with goods and services
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by the same means
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From Old Norse kinn, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenu- (“‘cheek’”).
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kind c. (singular definite kinden, plural indefinite kinder)
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Inflection of “kind”
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kind n. (plural kinderen, diminutive kindje, diminutive plural kindjes)
- child, kid, non-adult human
- descendant, still a minor or irrespective of age
- In sommige patriarchale tradities blijven kinderen levenslang onvoorwaardelijk onderworpen aan het vaderlijk gezag, zoals aanvankelijk in het Oude Rome, in andere houdt een zoon op kind te zijn door zijn eigen gezin te stichten
- In certain patriarchal traditions, children remain subject to unconditional paternal authority for life, as originally in Ancient Rome, in other ones a son ceases to be a child by founding his own family
- In sommige patriarchale tradities blijven kinderen levenslang onvoorwaardelijk onderworpen aan het vaderlijk gezag, zoals aanvankelijk in het Oude Rome, in andere houdt een zoon op kind te zijn door zijn eigen gezin te stichten
- (figuratively) product of influence, breeding etc.
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- (German) Kind n.
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- (descendant) afstammeling, telg
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kind f. (genitive singular kindar, plural kindur)
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| Inflection for kind | Singular | Plural | ||
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| common | Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite |
| Base form | kind | kinden | kinder | kinderna |
| Possessive form | kinds | kindens | kinders | kindernas |
kind c.
- (anatomy) cheek; a part of the face.
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