ilk
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
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#1·Apr 27, 2026
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
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#2·Apr 27, 2026
(Scotland, and, Northern England) ; same.
Origin: , from , conjectured as from , a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką. The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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