kind
A type, race or categoryA type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
» What kind of stone is this?
Was für eine Art Stein ist das?
Что это за камень?
Що це за камінь?
Meaning
10 sensesA 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?
What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon.
A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
The opening served as a kind of window.
Art
Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
in kind
I don't have any money but I can pay in kind by washing the dishes.
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
in kind
I'll pay in kind for his insult.
Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
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.
(Caribbean, in compounds)Food in a particular category.
Art, Sorte
видvid, разнови́дностьraznovídnostʹ, сортsort
видvyd, типtyp
(archaic)One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
ка́чествоkáčestvo, приро́даpriróda, хара́ктерxarákter
(archaic)Family, lineage.
(archaic)Manner.
- a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
Examples
6098 sentencesWhat kind of stone is this?
Що це за камінь?
ruЧто это за камень?
deWas für eine Art Stein ist das?
Some kinds of birds can't fly.
Деякі птахи не вміють літати.
ruНекоторые птицы не умеют летать.
deEinige Vogelarten können nicht fliegen.
I think that Tom is kind.
Я вважаю, що Том добрий.
deIch denke, dass Tom freundlich ist.
He is always kind to animals.
Він завжди поводиться гарно з тваринами.
deEr ist immer zu Tieren nett.
He was also kind to animals.
Він був також добрий до тварин.
ruОн также был добр к животным.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English kynde, kinde, from Old English cynd, ġecynd (“inherent nature, disposiFrom 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”).
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Forms
plural: kindsSynonyms
9 synonymsWord family
17 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- B1Feelings and character — Because the lesson uses it
Collocations
12 patterns- what kind of
- kind of thing
- this kind of
- that kind of
- kind of music
- the kind of
- was kind of
- kind of person
- same kind of
- kind of food
- the same kind
- kinds of problems