mankind
- noun
- /ˈmænˌkaɪnd/
- You're the biggest story in the history of mankind.
- mankind as a whole
- history of mankind
- rights of mankind
And because of the sin of mankind, light banished them.
- And because of the sin of mankind, light banished them.
- You know, this is about, you know, what mankind is doing.
- So service to mankind is service to Narayana.
- It's taken millions of years for mankind to progress to where we are.
- For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals.
- And the idea is you'll save mankind by eating the by eating the apple.
- It's filled with the darkness of mankind, but it's also filled with heroism.
- The most common kidney stone that plagues mankind is the calcium oxalate stone.
- He tells us that for mankind freedom is the beginning of all good things.
- And he struggled a lot with his feelings about mankind, about human beings.
- And it has to deal with the origins of mankind on Earth.
- You know why he played the hardest defense known to mankind.
- And when these things came down, they gave knowledge to mankind.
- It's the largest science facility ever built by mankind.
- And and so Jesus says to him, I died for mankind.
- And then Jacob Marley goes, mankind, mankind was my business.
Examples
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For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals.
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From the creation of this beautiful world of ours to the fall of mankind.
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In the history of mankind, nobody has created anything to match it.
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It's taken millions of years for mankind to progress to where we are.
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If this is the case, then mankind must be the author.
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And it has to deal with the origins of mankind on Earth.
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Instead of developing a technology for the benefit of mankind, he viewed his work as an academic exercise.
Academic text (2011) -
Then God said let us make mankind in our image and in our likeness.
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If we aspire to preserve mankind, leaving something for our own generation is not enough.
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Throughout history, mankind has made remarkable advancements in technology and culture.
Synonyms
All the people who live on Earth
All people in the world considered as a group
All people considered together as a group
Human beings in a group, for example in a country
All people who live on Earth as one group
All people as one group
All people without exception
All people as one group
The group that includes all living human beings
The scientific name for the modern human group, different from extinct species like Neanderthals
A group of humans that includes all living people
A Latin phrase that scientists use to mean humans
Idioms
A small action that leads to a very large benefit for all people
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mankind comes from old English parts man meaning 'person' and kind meaning 'type' or 'group'. So, mankind literally means the 'human kind', that is, all people together.