/kaɪnd/
Translation
A kind is a group of things that are the same in some way; a type or sort.
Word origin
Kind comes from an old English word for nature, family, or type.
- Origin
- Old English
- Root
- gecynd
Grammar
Examples
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Which type of music do you enjoy?
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There are many different sorts of fish in the water.
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This is the type of book I really enjoy.
A kind is a type or sort of thing - a group of things that share the same nature. When we ask what kind of food you like, we mean which type.
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Stories
(12)At the Doctor
3 min read · Core 1000
The First Day at Work
3 min read · Core 1000
Lost in Town
3 min read · Core 1000
The Late Bus
3 min read · Core 1000
The New Neighbour
3 min read · Core 1000
The Phone Call
3 min read · Core 1000
The Boat in the Garden
4 min read · Core 5000
The Letter She Never Sent
4 min read · Core 5000
The Long Way Home
4 min read · Core 1000
The Passenger
4 min read · Core 5000
The Register
5 min read · Core 5000
The Suggestion Box
5 min read · Core 5000
Grammar articles
(11)Compound nouns in English: car park, coffee cup, and why GREENhouse is not green HOUSE
Discourse markers in English: well, anyway, actually, mind you and by the way
Gradable and ungradable adjectives: why very furious sounds wrong, and which intensifier goes where
Hedging and vague language in English: sort of, a bit, -ish, stuff and or so
Who, What, Where, When, Why and How: The English Question Words
Phrasal-prepositional verbs: look forward to, put up with and the other three-part verbs
Quantifiers in English: some, any, much, many and more
Relative clauses in English: defining, non-defining and when to drop the pronoun
So, such, too and enough in English: words of degree and result
Used to, would and be used to: talking about past habits and states in English
Word formation in English: how suffixes build word families and give away the part of speech
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