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Kind

//kaɪnd// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.

    "Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull."

  2. 2
    Affectionate.

    "a kind man; a kind heart"

  3. 3
    Favorable.

    "Thy words aſſure me of kind ſucceſſe: / Go valiant Souldier, go before and charge / The fainting army of that foolish King."

  4. 4
    Mild, gentle, forgiving

    "The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well."

  5. 5
    Gentle; tractable; easily governed.

    "a horse kind in harness"

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  1. 6
    Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. obsolete

    "it becommeth sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind tast."

Adjective
  1. 1
    tolerant and forgiving under provocation wordnet
  2. 2
    agreeable, conducive to comfort wordnet
  3. 3
    having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    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?"

  2. 2
    a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality wordnet
  3. 3
    A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

    "The opening served as a kind of window."

  4. 4
    One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition. archaic

    "Must yt nedes folowe that theyr fayth was chaunged in kynde, bycause yt was augmented in degrees."

  5. 5
    Family, lineage. archaic

    "My young love said to me, My mother won’t mind And my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind."

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  1. 6
    Manner. archaic
  2. 7
    Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.

    "in kind"

  3. 8
    Equivalent means used as response to an action.

    "in kind"

  4. 9
    Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
  5. 10
    The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.

    "The kind of any primitive data type is *, corresponding to a nullary constructor."

  6. 11
    Food in a particular category. Caribbean, in-compounds

    "Fish kind was what she ate then."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

From Middle English kynde, kinde, from Old English cynde, ġecynde (“innate, natural, native”), from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“nature, kind”).

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