Mankind - Dictionary Definition and Overview

Mankind : (noun)

1: all of the 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, man]

Based on WordNet 2.0

Mankind : \Man`kind"\, n. [AS. mancynn. See Kin kindred, Kind, n.] 1. The human race; man, taken collectively.

The proper study of mankind is man. --Pore.

2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race. --Lev. xviii. 22.

3. Human feelings; humanity. [Obs] --B. Jonson.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Mankind : \Man"kind`\, a. Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel. [Obs]

Are women grown so mankind? Must they be wooing? --Beau. & Fl.

Be not too mankind against your wife. --Chapman.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

MANKIND. Persons of the male sex; but in a more general sense, it includes persons of both sexes; for example, the statute of 25 Hen. VIII., c. 6, makes it felony to commit, sodomy withMankind : or beast. Females as well as males axe included under the term mankind. Fortesc. 91; Bac. Ab. Sodomy. See Gender.

Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)