a group or category of people or things that have the same main features
This type of flower grows only in the mountains.
What type of music do you like most?
✦ From Latin ‘typus’, meaning “figure, image, form”, through French and early modern English.
to write words on a keyboard or typewriter
He typed the report in less than an hour.
Please type your password and press Enter.
✦ Verb sense originated in the late 19th century with the advent of the typewriter.
printed or digital letters and characters, especially considered by their size, style, or arrangement
The type on the old poster was faded and hard to read.
She designed the type for the company’s new logo.
✦ Sense developed in the 15th century with the invention of movable metal type for printing presses.
