'Mankind' definitions:
Definition of 'mankind'
(from WordNet)
noun
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]
Definition of 'Mankind'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'mankind'
From: GCIDE
- 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]