kindとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English kynde, kunde, cunde, icunde, from 古期英語 cynd, ġecynd (“inherent nature, disposition, kind, gender, generation, race”), from Proto-West Germanic *kundi, from Proto-Germanic *kinþiz, related to Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, kin”) and 古期英語 cennan (“to bear, give birth”). Cognate with Old High German gikunt (“nature, kind”), Icelandic kind (“race, species, kind”). Doublet of gens, genesis, and jati. See also kin.

別の表記

• kinde, kynd, kynde (廃れた用法)

名詞

kind (複数形 kinds)

1. A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

   What kind of a person are you?

   This is a strange kind of tobacco.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1:

     How diversely Love doth his pageants play, / And shews his powre in variable kinds !

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[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. […]”

   • 2022, James Dominic Rooney, Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics, page 166:

     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).

2. A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

   The opening served as a kind of window.

   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

     I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods. I made a kind of a tent out of my blankets to put my things under so the rain couldn't get at them.

3. (archaic) One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
   • 1533, Thomas More, The second parte of the confutacion of Tyndals answere in whyche is also confuted the chyrche that Tyndale deuyseth:

     Must yt nedes folowe that theyr fayth was chaunged in kynde, bycause yt was augmented in degrees.

   • 1551, Thomas Wilson, The rule of reason, conteinyng the arte of logique:

     The generall woorde, is spoken of many, that differ either in kynd, or els in nombre.

   • 1665, Robert Boyle, Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects. Whereto is premis'd a Discourse about such kind of thoughts:

     'Tis all one..whether our Afflictions be the same with those of others, in Kind, or not Superiour to them in Degree.

   • 2002, D. DeGrazia, Animal Rights:

     He also argued powerfully, if less influentially, that animals' and humans' capacities differ largely in degree and not in kind.

4. (archaic) Family, lineage.
   • "She Moved through the Fair" (traditional Irish folk song)

     My young love said to me, My mother won’t mind
     And my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind.

5. (archaic) Manner.
7. Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
   • 1691, John Dryden, Prologue to King Arthur:

     Some of you, on pure instinct of nature, / Are led by kind t'admire your fellow-creature.

8. Equivalent means used as response to an action.

   I'll pay in kind for his insult.

9. (Christianity) Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.

使用する際の注意点

In sense “goods or services” or “equivalent means”, used almost exclusively with “in” in expression in kind.

同意語

• genre
• sort
• type
• derivative

(1) and/or (2)

• generation
• offspring
• child
• See also Thesaurus:class

派生語

関連する語

語源 2

From Middle English kinde, kunde, kende, from 古期英語 cynde, ġecynde (“innate, natural, native”), from 古期英語 cynd, ġecynd (“nature, kind”).

別の表記

• kinde (廃れた用法)

形容詞

kind (comparative kinder, superlative kindest)

1. Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The whilſt their owne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittiful.

2. Affectionate.

   a kind man; a kind heart

   • 1770, [Oliver] Goldsmith, The Deserted Village, a Poem, London: […] W. Griffin, […], →OCLC:

     Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, / The love he bore to learning was in fault.

3. Favorable.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iii:

     Thy words aſſure me of kind ſucceſſe:
     Go valiant Souldier, go before and charge
     The fainting army of that foolish King.

4. Mild, gentle, forgiving

   The years have been kind to Richard Gere; he ages well.

5. Gentle; tractable; easily governed.

   a horse kind in harness

6. (obsolete) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 または 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:

     it becommeth sweeter than it should be, and loseth the kind tast.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:affectionate

派生語

Further reading

• Kind in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

アナグラム

• DINK, dink

接尾辞

-kind

1. Used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively from animate nouns

派生語