Definitions
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- suffix Used to form nouns denoting groups or classes taken collectively.
Etymologies
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From Middle English -kinde, -kunde, -kuinde, alteration (due to the noun kind ("type, class")) of Middle English -kin, -kun, -cun, from Old English -cynn ("of or belonging to a specified race or family"), from cynn ("family, race"), see kin. Most uses appear to have been formed by analogy with mankind.
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Examples
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Keeping this kit out of the communal Lego collection is hardly depriving my kids and I know that once he's in there, the general will never see the light of day intact and in his original form -kind of like the
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I liked the scene in which you're paying around with a gun and aiming it at your head in a "Is he going to kill himself"-kind of way.
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