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-kind

-kind suffix: used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively from animate nouns.

Suffix

-kind (noun-forming suffix, uncountable)

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

Origin of -kind

From Middle English -kinde, -kunde, -kuinde, alteration (due to the noun kind (“type, class”)) of -kin, -kun, -cun, from Old English cynn (“family, race”), see kin. Most uses appear to have been formed by analogy with mankind.

Questions about -kind

What does -kind mean?
-kind means used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively from animate nouns.
What part of speech is -kind?
-kind is a suffix.

Words near -kind in the dictionary

  1. -kacin
  2. -kai-
  3. -ki-
  4. -kin
  5. -kin-
  6. -kind
  7. -kine
  8. -kinesia
  9. -kinesis
  10. -kini
  11. -kinra

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