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ilk
What does ilk mean?
ilk (noun): a kind of person.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use ilk in a sentence?
- People of your ilk are not welcome in this establishment. (Tatoeba sentence #8978075 by mccarras, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce ilk?
/ɪlk/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does ilk come from?
Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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a kind of person
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