kind meaning
EN
[kaɪnd] [-aɪnd] 
US WKind
- Kind may refer to:
- Created kind, often abbreviated to kinds, a creationist category of life forms
- Kind (horse) (foaled 2001), an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse
- Kind (type theory), the type of types in a type system
- Kind Hundred, a hundred divided between Halland, Småland and Västergötland, Sweden
- Kind (surname), a list of people with the surname
- KIND Healthy Snacks
- NounPLkindsSUF-kind
- 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.
- A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
- The opening served as a kind of window.
- (archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
- Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
- Equivalent means used as response to an action.
- I'll pay in kind for his insult.
- (Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
- A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
- AdjectiveCOMkinderSUPkindest
- having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for - and service to - others.
- Affectionate.
- a kind man; a kind heart
- Favorable.
- mild, gentle, forgiving.
- The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.
- Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
- a horse kind in harness
- OBS Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
- having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for - and service to - others.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- If you ever use that kind of language in front of my girlfriend again, I am going to beat the stuffing out of you.
- I dewikified "a kind of deciduous tree" to "a kind of deciduous tree".
- This kind of break by countershock in the haft occurs on Paleoindian bifacial point and has been reproduced experimentally on replicas of Paleoindian and Solutrean shouldered points [63 ].
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- In medical terms, it would be a cephalosomatic anastomosis, the first of its kind.
- Also, this is, amazingly enough, my first ever Buffyfic, so be kind.
- Men often work in unison to accomplish political or religious reforms. This is coöperative effort of one kind.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of kind in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Adjectives
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "kind" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.