n. 1 class, category, classification, kind, sort, genre, order, variety, breed, species, strain, group, genus, ilk, kidney Just what type of person would you say the president is? 2 typeface, Brit fount, US font The body text ought to be set in Bodoni Book type, the headings in Times bold 3 prototype, paradigm, archetype, epitome, exemplar, model, specimen, pattern, personification, standard, quintessence She doesn't consider him to be the usual type of businessman
v. 4 typewrite; keyboard; transcribe She types at a speed of about sixty words a minute