Kind I Kaɪnd Money Noun Cakes/Cake House Live

• three kinds of cakes/cake
• what kind of house do you live in?
• they sell all kinds of things.
• i need to buy paper and pencils, that kind of thing.

kind

1. a group of people or things that are the same in some way; a particular variety or type
• three kinds of cakes/cake
• What kind of house do you live in?
• They sell all kinds of things.
• I need to buy paper and pencils, that kind of thing.
• His diet's terrible—burgers, chips, pizzas, that kind of stuff.
• I'm the kind of person who hates to do anything wrong.
• We have the same kind of car.
• I'll never have that kind of money (= as much money as that).
• She isn't that kind of girl.
• This kind of exercise is very popular.
• Exercises of this kind are very popular.
• music of all/various/different kinds
• The school is the first of its kind in Britain.
• Would you like a drink of some kind?
• The regions differ in size, but not in kind.

Extra Examples

• Be sure to eat enough of the right kind of food.
• I missed him, in a funny kind of way.
• I'm a fairly normal kind of guy.
• Prostate cancer is the most common kind of cancer in men.
• You need some kind of cover over it to protect it from the rain.
2. consisting of goods or services, not money
• As well as his salary, he gets benefits in kind.
3. with the same thing
• She insulted him and he responded in kind.
4. used to show that something you are saying is not exact
• I had a kind of feeling this might happen.
5. slightly; in some ways
• That made me feel kind of stupid.
• I like him, kind of.
6. used to emphasize that the situation is very different from what has been said
• ‘I was terrible!’ ‘You were nothing of the kind.’
7. not as good as it could be
• You're making progress of a kind.
8. very similar
• They're two of a kind—both workaholics!
9. the only one like this
• SYNONYM unique
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/unique
• My father was one of a kind—I'll never be like him.
10. something like what has been said
• ‘He's resigning.’ ‘I'd suspected something of the kind.’

Word Origin

• noun 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 the adjective kind); hence ‘a class ’or‘ race distinguished by innate characteristics’.