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   Kind

   /kīnd/

   

   adjective

   • 1. having or showing a friendly, generous, and considerate nature: "she was a good, kind woman"
   • ▪ used in a polite request: "would you be kind enough to repeat what you said?"
   • ▪ (of a consumer product) gentle on (a part of the body): "look for rollers that are kind to hair"
   • ▪ affectionate or loving.

   Word Origin Old Englishgecynde ‘natural, native’; in Middle English the earliest sense is ‘well born or well bred’, whence ‘well disposed by nature, courteous, gentle, benevolent’.

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   What does kind mean in English?

   • of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person: a kind and loving person. having, showing, or proceeding from benevolence: kind words. humane (often fol. by to): to be kind to animals. clement: kind weather. affectionate. Middle English kind ( e) natural, well-disposed, Old English gecynde natural, genial1. See kind2 bef. 900 1.

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   Where did the word kind come from?

   • The earliest known use of the noun kind is in the Old English period (pre-1150). kind is of multiple origins. Probably partly a word inherited from Germanic. Partly a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: i-cunde n. kind, n. Old English–

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   Is kind a plural noun?

   • Historically, kind is an unchanged or unmarked plural noun like deer, folk, sheep, and swine, and the construction these kind of is an old one, occurring in the writings of Shakespeare, Swift, Jane Austen, and, in modern times, Jimmy Carter and Winston Churchill.

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   What does kindly mean?

   • Kindly, a mild word, refers usually to general disposition, appearance, manner, etc.: a kindly face. a class or group of individual objects, people, animals, etc., of the same nature or character, or classified together because they have traits in common; category: Our dog is the same kind as theirs.

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   Kind definition: of a good or benevolent nature or disposition, as a person. See examples of KIND used in a sentence.

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   Grammar kind / type / sort Use the singular (kind/type/sort) or plural (kinds/types/sorts) depending on the word you use before them: each/one/every kind of animal all/many/other types of animals Kind/type/sort of is followed by a singular or uncountable noun: This type of question often appears on the test. That sort of behavior is not acceptable.

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   kind. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English kind1 /kaɪnd/ S1 W1 noun 1 [ countable, uncountable] one of the different types of a person or thing that belong to the same group SYN sort, type kind of They sell all kinds of things. The flowers attract several different kinds of insects. Greg was working on some kind of deal in Italy.

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   that kind of something I'll never have that kind of money (= as much money as that). He wouldn't say anything about it. He's not that kind of man. this kind of something This kind of exercise is very popular. of a kind Exercises of this kind are very popular. music of all/various/different kinds; The school is the first of its kind in Britain.

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   (kind‧er, kind‧est) jump to other results 1 caring about others; gentle, friendly, and generous a very kind and helpful person a kind heart/face a kind action/gesture/comment You've been very kind. kind (to somebody/something) kind to animals ( figurative ) The weather was very kind to us. kind (of somebody) (to do something) It was really ...

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   There are 35 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun kind, 23 of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. kind has developed meanings and uses in subjects including. taxonomy (Old English) astronomy (Old English) law (Middle English) physiology (Middle English) grammar (Middle ...