MANKIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mankind mean? 

• MANKIND (noun)
  The noun MANKIND has 1 sense:

1. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

  Familiarity information: MANKIND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANKIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

All of the living human inhabitants of the earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

human beings; human race; humanity; humankind; humans; man; mankind; world

Context example:

she always used 'humankind' because 'mankind' seemed to slight the women

Hypernyms ("mankind" is a kind of...):

group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)

homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

Meronyms (members of "mankind"):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

 Context examples 

But I am I, and I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“To any one who wishes to study mankind this is the spot,” said Mycroft.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rest of mankind was as nothing.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Truly, this is the way of mankind.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Do your duty towards me, and I will do mine towards you and the rest of mankind.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

By Saint Paul! said Sir Nigel, if you have indeed this power to open and to shut the gates of hope, then indeed you stand high above mankind.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Egad, Doctor,” returned Mr. Wickfield, “if Doctor Watts knew mankind, he might have written, with as much truth, “Satan finds some mischief still, for busy hands to do.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince’s notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She would not even admit it to have been natural; and Elinor left her to be convinced that it was so, by that which only could convince her, a better knowledge of mankind.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The husband had not been what he ought, and the wife had been led among that part of mankind which made her think worse of the world than she hoped it deserved.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)