kind

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   tolerant and forgiving under provocation

   our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke

2. 2
   adj

   agreeable, conducive to comfort

   a dry climate kind to asthmatics

3. 3
   noun

   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?

4. 4
   noun

   A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

   The opening served as a kind of window.

5. 5
   noun

   One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

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

6. 6
   noun

   Family, lineage.

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

7. 7
   noun

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

   in kind

8. 8
   noun

   Equivalent means used as response to an action.

   in kind

Etymology

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.