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adj
comparative form of kind: more kind
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: comparative, form-of
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adv
Alternative form of kinda.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, not-comparable
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name
A surname.
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name
Places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Indiana.
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name
Places in the United States:
A town in Allen Parish, Louisiana.
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name
Places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Stoddard County, Missouri.
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name
Places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lincoln County, West Virginia.
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name
A minor river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the River Sett.
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noun
Children.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous, plural, plural-only
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noun
Clipping of kindergarten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, uncountable
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noun
Clipping of kindergartner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, countable, informal
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History
From kind + -er.
From kind of.
Uncertain but probably of Proto-Brythonic origin. The name may be equivalent to Welsh cain (“elegant, fair”) or cant (“border, rim”) + dwfr (“water”).
From German Kinder (“children”), sometimes via Yiddish קינדער (kinder, “children”).
Clipping of kindergarten or kindergartner.
