Meaning

• 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."

• A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.

  "The opening served as a kind of window."

• One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.

• Family, lineage.

• Manner.

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

• Equivalent means used as response to an action.

  "I'll pay in kind for his insult."

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