mankind

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English

Etymology

From Middle English mankinde, mankende, mankunde, mankuinde, alteration (due to kinde, kunde (“kind, nature, sort”)) of earlier mankin, mankun, mancun (“mankind”), from Old English mancynn; equivalent to man +‎ kin, and/or man +‎ -kind. Cognate with Scots mankind, Middle High German mankünne, Danish mandkøn, Swedish mankön, Icelandic mannkyn (“mankind”). See also mankin.

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Noun

mankind (uncountable)

1. The human race in its entirety.
   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, Internal Combustion^[1]:

     More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.

2. Men collectively, as opposed to all women.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bible, Leviticus xviii. 22 to this entry?)

3. (obsolete) Human feelings; humanity.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Synonyms

• See also Wikisaurus:humankind

Antonyms

• (all men): womankind

Translations

human race

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人類 (cmn), 人类 (cmn) (rénlèi)

• Czech: lidstvo (cs) n
• Dutch: mensheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: homaro (eo)
• Finnish: ihmiskunta (fi)
• French: humanité (fr) f
• Georgian: ადამიანი (ka) (adamiani)
• German: Menschheit (de) f
• Hungarian: emberiség (hu)
• Icelandic: mannkyn (is) n
• Italian: umanità (it) f
• Japanese: 人類 (ja) (jinrui)
• Khmer: មនុស្សជាតិ (km) (mɔnuh ciet)
• Korean: 인류 (ko) (illyu)
• Latvian: cilvēce (lv) f

• Navajo: diné
• Norwegian Bokmål: menneskehet (nb) m
• Old English: mancynn (ang) n
• Persian: بشر (fa) (bašar)
• Polish: ludzkość (pl) f, rodzaj ludzki (pl) m
• Portuguese: humanidade (pt) f
• Russian: челове́чество (ru) (čelovéčestvo) n
• Scottish Gaelic: mac an duine (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: (Ekavian) човеча̀нство (sh) n, (Ijekavian) човјеча̀нство (sh) n, људство (sh) n

  Roman: (Ekavian) čovečànstvo (sh) n, (Ijekavian) čovječànstvo (sh) n, ljudstvo (sh) n

• Spanish: humanidad (es) f
• Turkish: insanoğlu (tr), insan (tr), âdemoğlu (tr)
• Vietnamese: loài người (vi)
• Zulu: isintu (zu) 7/8

man as opposed to woman

• Finnish: miehet (fi) pl
• German: Männer (de) pl
• Hungarian: férfiak (hu) pl

• Serbo-Croatian: мушкиње (sh) n
• Vietnamese: đàn ông (vi), nam giới (vi)
• Zulu: isilisa (zu) 7/8

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: uomo (2)
• Portuguese: espécie humana (1), humanidade (2)

External links

• mankind in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• mankind in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911