kind

English

/kaɪnd/

noun
Definitions
  • 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.
  • (archaic) Manner.
  • 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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English kynde inherited from Old English cynd (generation, kind, race, nature) inherited from Proto-Germanic *kundiz (kind) root from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*ǵenh₁-

Gloss

produce, beget, give birth, be born, procreate, generate, beget give birth to, bear

Concept
Semantic Field

Modern world

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Kanji

産

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