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    kind
    [kīnd]
    noun
    kind (noun) · kinds (plural noun)
    1. a group of people or things having similar characteristics:
      "all kinds of music" · "a new kind of education" · "more data of this kind would be valuable"
      • character; nature:
        "the trials were different in kind from any that preceded them" · "true to kind"
      • each of the elements (bread and wine) of the Eucharist:
        "communion in both kinds"
    Origin
    Old English cynd(e), gecynd(e), of Germanic origin; related to kin. The original sense was ‘nature, the natural order’, also ‘innate character, form, or condition’ (compare with kind); hence ‘a class or race distinguished by innate characteristics’.
    kind
    [kīnd]
    adjective
    kind (adjective) · kinder (comparative adjective) · kindest (superlative adjective)
    1. having or showing a friendly, generous, and considerate nature:
      "she was a good, kind woman" · "he was very kind to me"
      • used in a polite request:
        "would you be kind enough to repeat what you said?"
      • (kind to)
        (of a consumer product) gentle on (a part of the body):
        "look for rollers that are kind to hair"
      • archaic
        affectionate or loving.
    Origin
    Old English gecynde ‘natural, native’; in Middle English the earliest sense is ‘well born or well bred’, whence ‘well disposed by nature, courteous, gentle, benevolent’.
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    adjective
    1. having or showing a friendly, generous, and considerate nature:
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