kinder

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.

kinder (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of kinda
   • 1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw‎:

     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.

kinder (countable and uncountable, plural kinders)

1. (Philippines, countable, uncountable) Short for kindergarten.
2. (informal, countable) Short for kindergartener.

• kinder one
• kinder two

• Kidner, drinke, kidren, kinred, red ink

kinder c

1. indefinite plural of kind

kinder

1. indefinite plural of kind

kinder

1. cannabis