3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: mankind \man'kind"\, noun [AS. mancynn. See {Kin} kindred, {Kind}, n.] 1. The human race; man, taken collectively. The proper study of mankind is man. --Pore. 2. Men, as distinguished from women; the male portion of human race. --Lev. xviii. 22. 3. Human feelings; humanity. [Obs] --B. Jonson. From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]: Mankind \Man"kind'\, adjective Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel. [Obs] Are women grown so mankind? Must they be wooing? --Beau. & Fl. Be not too mankind against your wife. --Chapman. From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: mankind noun: all of the inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used 'humankind' because 'mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: {world}, {human race}, {humanity}, {humankind}, {human beings}, {humans}, {man}]

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