< This usage should not be confused with a kind of or a sort of, which are much older and refer to a borderline member of a given category (as in a kind of a shelter or a sort of a bluish color). Shakespeare had this usage in Two Gentlemen of Verona (3:1): “My master is a kind of a knave.” Also see of a kind.
In addition to the idiom beginning with kind
- kind of
also see:
- all kinds of
- in kind
- nothing of the kind
- of a kind
- two of a kind