Direct Cross-Language Association: “Kind” in German
This word also exists in German! Meaning: “kid; child (young person)”
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Direct German Translations & Equivalents:
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Definitions & Usage
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
(archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
(archaic) Family, lineage.
Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
Equivalent means used as response to an action.
(Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
(type theory) The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
(Caribbean, in compounds) Food in a particular category.
Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
Affectionate.
Mild, gentle, forgiving
Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
(obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“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: