kinder

From kind + -er.

• (UK) enPR: kīndʹə, IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪndə/
• (US) enPR: kīndʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪndɚ/

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• Rhymes: -aɪndə(ɹ)

kinder

1. 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.

From kind of.

kinder (not comparable)

1. 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.'

From German Kinder (“children”), sometimes via Yiddish קינדער (kinder, “children”).

• (UK) enPR: kĭndʹə, IPA^(key): /ˈkɪndə/
• (US) enPR: kĭndʹər, IPA^(key): /ˈkɪndɚ/

kinder pl (plural only)

1. (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.

Clipping of kindergarten or kindergartner.

kinder (countable and uncountable, plural kinders)

1. (Philippines, Australia, countable, uncountable) Clipping of kindergarten.
2. (informal, countable) Clipping of kindergartner.

• kinder one
• kinder two

• Kidner, drinke, kidren, kinred, red ink

kinder c

1. indefinite plural of kind

kinder

1. nominative/genitive plural of kint

• kiender (Central Greater Poland)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Central Greater Poland) IPA^(key): [ˈkin.dɛr]

kinder m animal

1. (Central Greater Poland) synonym of kiernoz

• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “kinder”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 19

kinder

1. indefinite plural of kind

kinder

1. cannabis