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Definitions for mankind
ˈmænˈkaɪnd for 1 ; ˈmænˌkaɪnd for 2mankind

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, mannoun

    all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

    "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women"

Wiktionary

  1. mankindnoun

    The human race in its entirety.

  2. mankindnoun

    All male men as opposed to all women.

  3. Etymology: From mankinde, mankende, mankunde, mankuinde, alteration (due to kinde, kunde) of earlier mankin, mankun, mancun, from mancynn; equivalent to, and/or. Cognate with mankind, mankünne, mandkøn, mankön, mannkyn. See also mankin.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Mankindnoun

    Etymology: man and kind.

    Plato witnesseth, that soon after mankind began to increase, they built many cities. Walter Raleigh, Hist. of the World.

    All mankind alike require their grace,
    All born to want; a miserable race. Alexander Pope, Odyssey.

    A mankind witch! hence with her, out o’ door:
    A most intelligency bawd! William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.

ChatGPT

  1. mankind

    Mankind is a term used to refer to all human beings collectively, regardless of their sex or age. It is a term often used to express the concept of the human race as a whole, referring to shared qualities, characteristics, and experiences that define the human condition.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mankindnoun

    the human race; man, taken collectively

  2. Mankindnoun

    men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race

  3. Mankindnoun

    human feelings; humanity

  4. Mankindadjective

    manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel

  5. Etymology: [AS. mancynn. See Kin kindred, Kind, n.]

Wikidata

  1. Mankind

    Mankind is the debut album by the American nu metal band Factory 81. It is to date the bands only album.

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. mankind

    1. A nomadic savage that has wandered over the face of the earth from East to West in order to reach the East so it could go West again. It has left many traces of its life--barrooms, brothels, jails, churches, gallows, best sellers, etc. 2. In the animal kingdom, a surreptitious and supposititious supererogation. 3. Among the Simians a place equivalent to our hell. "Oh, you go to Mankind," is quite frequently heard in the African jungle, even in the best society.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mankind in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mankind in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of mankind in a Sentence

  1. Adam Clayton Jr. Powell:

    Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  2. Jonathan Swift:

    How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning

  3. Seneca the Younger:

    A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

  4. W. E. B. Du Bois:

    It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.

  5. Joseph Conrad:

    All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

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