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Word entry · 3 letters

ilk

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"Type or sort"

3 letters · collected on this word page

3 lettersPronunciation /ɪlk/Part of speech nounSorted iklStarts with IEnds with K1 cluesCommon crossword word
1I2L3K

Definitions

  1. Type, kind, or class.

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • By semblaunt, was that ilke image
  • "Hinkydink” or “Bathhouse John,” or others of that ilk, were proprietors of the most notorious dives in Chicago[…]
  • The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.

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