noun.
A cricket.
1. Native; natural; characteristic; proper to the genus, species, or individual.
Of a sympathetic nature or disposition; beneficently disposed: good-hearted; considerate and tender in the treatment of others; benevolent; benignant.
Loving; affectionate; full of tenderness; caressing.
Marked by sympathetic feeling; proceeding from goodness of heart; amiable; obliging: considerate: as, a kind act; kind treatment; kind regards.
Of a favorable character or quality; propitious; serviceable; adaptable; tractable: as, kind weather; a horse kind in harness.
= Syn. 2 and 3. Gracious, Good-natured, etc. (see benignant); Kindly, etc. (see kindly); benign, beneficent, bounteous, generous, indulgent, tender, humane, compassionate, good, lenient, clement, mild, gentle, bland, friendly, amicable.
noun.
Nature; natural constitution or character.
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Natural disposition, propensity, bent, or characteristic.
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Natural descent.
noun.
A class; a sort; a species; a number of individual objects having common characters peculiar to them.
noun.
In a loose use, a variety; a particular variation or variant: as, a kind of low fever. See kind of, below.
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Gender; sex.
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Specific manner or way; method of action or operation.
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Race; family; stock; descent; a line of individuals related as parent or ancestor and child or descendant.
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Blood-relationship.
noun.
Also, in phrases like what kind of a thing is this? he is a poor kind of fellow (that is, a thing of what kind, a fellow of a poor kind), kind of has come to seem like an adjective element before the noun, and hence before a plural noun, after words like some, all, and especially these and those, it sometimes keeps the singular form: as, these kind of people. This inaccuracy is very old, and still far from rare, both in speaking and in writing; but good usage condemns it.
noun.
Synonyms Sort, Kind (see sort); breed, species, set, family, description.
To beget.