mankind
/mænˈkaɪnd/ noun B1- The human race in its entirety. · One small step for a man can be a giant leap for mankind.
- Men collectively, as opposed to all women.
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‘The proper study of mankind is man,’ you know.”
With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.
An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.
The patron of La Jeune Amélie proposed as a place of landing the Island of Monte Cristo, which being completely deserted, and having neither soldiers nor revenue officers, seemed to have been placed in the midst of the ocean since the time of the heathen Olympus by Mercury, the god of merchants and robbers, classes of mankind which we in modern times have separated if not made distinct, but which antiquity appears to have included in the same category.
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