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HUMANKIND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
All of the living human inhabitants of the earth
Example:
she always used 'humankind' because 'mankind' seemed to slight the women
Synonyms:
human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("humankind" is a kind of...):
group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)
Meronyms (members of "humankind"):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Context examples:
I may add, without vanity, that my presence often gave them sufficient matter for discourse, because it afforded my master an occasion of letting his friends into the history of me and my country, upon which they were all pleased to descant, in a manner not very advantageous to humankind: and for that reason I shall not repeat what they said; only I may be allowed to observe, that his honour, to my great admiration, appeared to understand the nature of Yahoos much better than myself.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The reader may be disposed to wonder how I could prevail on myself to give so free a representation of my own species, among a race of mortals who are already too apt to conceive the vilest opinion of humankind, from that entire congruity between me and their Yahoos.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
