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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
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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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