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ILK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ilk mean?
• ILK (noun)
The noun ILK has 1 sense:
1. a kind of person
Familiarity information: ILK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A kind of person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
ilk; like
Context example:
I can't tolerate people of his ilk
Hypernyms ("ilk" is a kind of...):
form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)
Context examples
While the sight of a moose-bird almost invariably put him into the wildest of rages; for he never forgot the peck on the nose he had received from the first of that ilk he encountered.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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