kind – English noun declension

English noun forms of kind

Noun: kind
Singularkind
Pluralkinds

Sample Sentences

  • What kind of (a) person are you?
  • What kind of ice-cream would you like? There's chocolate, strawberry, and lemon.
  • Neither of them is the marrying kind.
  • How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shews his powre in variable kinds ! [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1:]
  • “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
  • Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]” [1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:]
  • That in virtue of which all of his material parts are of the same kind human being is what makes those parts belong to Hook, but Hook is neither identical with his kind (the essence of human being), nor is Hook merely that which makes him a member of the kind or all his parts human (his soul). [2022, James Dominic Rooney, Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics, page 166:]
  • The opening served as a kind of window.
  • I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them. [1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:]
  • Must yt nedes folowe that theyr fayth was chaunged in kynde, bycause yt was augmented in degrees. [1533, Thomas More, The second parte of the confutacion of Tyndals answere in whyche is also confuted the chyrche that Tyndale deuyseth:]
  • The generall woorde, is spoken of many, that differ either in kynd, or els in nombre. [1551, Thomas Wilson, The rule of reason, conteinyng the arte of logique:]
  • 'Tis all one..whether our Afflictions be the same with those of others, in Kind, or not Superiour to them in Degree. [1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects. Whereto is premis'd a Discourse about such kind of thoughts:]
  • He also argued powerfully, if less influentially, that animals' and humans' capacities differ largely in degree and not in kind. [2002, D. DeGrazia, Animal Rights:]
  • My young love said to me, My mother won’t mind
  • And my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind. ["She Moved through the Fair" (traditional Irish folk song)]
  • in kind (with goods or services instead of with money)
  • I don't have any money but I can pay in kind by washing the dishes.
  • Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature. [1691, John Dryden, Prologue to King Arthur:]
  • in kind (in a similar manner)
  • I'll pay in kind for his insult.
  • The kind of any primitive data type is *, corresponding to a nullary constructor.
  • Fish kind was what she ate then. [1998, Easton Lee, From Behind the Counter: Poems from a Rural Jamaican Experience:]
  • The farmers had plenty of ground provisions, but there was no "meat kind." [2005 January 1, Michaeline A. Crichlow, Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 116:]
  • They can be served with fried fish, chicken, ackee and salt fish or other meat kind, as well as eaten separately as a treat. [2013 06, Wellesley Gayle, The Jamaica Insider Guide, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 30:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. Cognate with Old High German gikunt (“nature, kind”), Icelandic kind (“race, species, kind”). Doublet of gens, genesis, and jati. See also kin. See: Middle English Nouns 'kynde', Old English Nouns 'cynd', Old English Nouns 'cennan', Icelandic Nouns 'kind'.

Verbs referencing "kind"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns kind, Latin Nouns gens.