kinder
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) enPR: kīndʹə, IPA(key): /ˈkaɪndə/
- (US) enPR: kīndʹər, IPA(key): /ˈkaɪndɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)
Adjective edit
kinder
- comparative form of kind: more kind
- My aunt has been kinder to me since my father died.
- 2021 February 10, Nigel Harris, “We risk destroying value”, in RAIL, number 924, page 3:
- Electric trains have much lower operating costs and are kinder to the track.
Etymology 2 edit
Adverb edit
kinder (not comparable)
- Alternative form of kinda
- 1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw[1]:
- I told ’im to give you the strings last night, but I’m kinder glad thet Rosebud interfered an’ saved yer life.
- 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 9, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017:
- 'No, he was kinder reticent about that part of it.'
Etymology 3 edit
From German Kinder (“children”), sometimes via Yiddish קינדער (kinder, “children”).
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Noun edit
kinder pl (plural only)
- (chiefly humorous or in German or Yiddish contexts) Children.
- 2008 December 31, Al Scaduto, They'll Do It Every Time (newspaper comic):
- But - let wifey leave him with the kinder while out shopping...
- 2010, Beth Rubin, Frommer's Washington D.C. with Kids, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
- Of special interest to the kinder are The Children's Place, Baby Gap, Gap Kids and Gap, Gymboree, The Limited, America!, and the Sweet Factory.
- 2012, Charlotte Druckman, Skirt Steak: Women Chefs on Standing the Heat and Staying in the Kitchen, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 192:
- Do note, as Goin mentions, this is a policy better implemented when the kinder are well past infancy.
- 2008 December 31, Al Scaduto, They'll Do It Every Time (newspaper comic):
Noun edit
kinder (countable and uncountable, plural kinders)
- (Philippines, countable, uncountable) Short for kindergarten.
- (informal, countable) Short for kindergartener.
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Noun edit
kinder c
- indefinite plural of kind
Swedish edit
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kinder
- indefinite plural of kind
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