Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The human race.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The race of man; mankind; the human species.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Mankind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
human race ;mankind ,humanity ;Homo sapiens .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
Etymologies
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Examples
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Your faith in humankind is simply astonishing, redkittyred.
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In recent years, though, Thorneycroft has turned to black humour and contemporary mass culture as props to stage further investigations into what she calls humankind's hopeless attraction to "spectacles of violence."
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However, they do seem to be part of the our human nature and I'm convinced that we are better people because we hold them, and that humankind is better off with them than without them.
Wangari Maathai: Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth Wangari Maathai 2010
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The big step for humankind is de-legitimizing the USGovt.
Hours of my life, wasted by The New York Times (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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However, they do seem to be part of the our human nature and I'm convinced that we are better people because we hold them, and that humankind is better off with them than without them.
Wangari Maathai: Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth Wangari Maathai 2010
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However, they do seem to be part of the our human nature and I'm convinced that we are better people because we hold them, and that humankind is better off with them than without them.
Wangari Maathai: Spiritual Environmentalism: Healing Ourselves by Replenishing the Earth Wangari Maathai 2010
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Educating ourselves and our youths about the area that we may learn more and become successful to realize greater heights in humankind achievement rather than allowing interest in the world wane through inactivity certainly does this.
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The history of humankind is one of a mixture of gradual and accelerated changes – socially, intellectually and technically.
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Educating ourselves and our youths about the area that we may learn more and become successful to realize greater heights in humankind achievement rather than allowing interest in the world wane through inactivity certainly does this.
Place Based Education and Beachwood: A Perfect Partnership « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
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Educating ourselves and our youths about the area that we may learn more and become successful to realize greater heights in humankind achievement rather than allowing interest in the world wane through inactivity certainly does this.
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