kinds

noun

1. 1

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

   “This is a strange kind of tobacco.”

2. 2

   A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

   “The opening served as a kind of window.”

3. 3

   One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

4. 4

   Family, lineage.

5. 5

   Manner.

6. 6

   Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.

7. 7

   Equivalent means used as response to an action.

   “I'll pay in kind for his insult.”

8. 8

   Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.