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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth;
- Example: "all the world loves a lover"
- Example: "she always used `humankind' because `mankind'; seemed to slight the women";
[syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mankind \Man"kind`\, a. Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel. [Obs] [1913 Webster] Are women grown so mankind? Must they be wooing? --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster] Be not too mankind against your wife. --Chapman. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

mankind \man`kind"\, n. [AS. mancynn. See Kin kindred, Kind, n.] 1. The human race; man, taken collectively. [1913 Webster] The proper study of mankind is man. --Pore. [1913 Webster] 2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race. --Lev. xviii. 22. [1913 Webster] 3. Human feelings; humanity. [Obs] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mankind n 1: 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" [syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man]