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- English Word Kind Definition Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
- English Word Kind Definition Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart.
- English Word Kind Definition Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious.
- English Word Kind Definition Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act.
- English Word Kind Definition Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness.
- English Word Kind Definition Nature; natural instinct or disposition.
- English Word Kind Definition Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind.
- English Word Kind Definition Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc.
- English Word Kind Definition To beget.
- English Word Kind-hearted Definition Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord.
- English Word Kind-heartedness Definition The state or quality of being kind-hearted; benevolence.
- English Word Kindergarten Definition A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.
- English Word Kindergartner Definition One who teaches in a kindergarten.
- English Word Kinding Definition The of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions.
- English Word Kinding Definition Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire.
- English Word Kindle Definition To bring forth young.
- English Word Kindle Definition To set on fire; to cause to burn with flame; to ignite; to cause to begin burning; to start; to light; as, to kindle a match, or shavings.
- English Word Kindle Definition Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame.
- English Word Kindle Definition To take fire; to begin to burn with flame; to start as a flame.
- English Word Kindle Definition Fig.: To begin to be excited; to grow warm or animated; to be roused or exasperated.