Meaning of kind in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

noun

• A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

  Example: This is a strange kind of tobacco.

• A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

  Example: The opening served as a kind of window.

• One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

• Family, lineage.

• Manner.

• Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.

• Equivalent means used as response to an action.

  Example: I'll pay in kind for his insult.

• Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.

adjective

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

• Affectionate.

  Example: a kind man; a kind heart

• Favorable.

• Mild, gentle, forgiving

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

• Gentle; tractable; easily governed.

  Example: a horse kind in harness

• Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.