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- [hahynd]
- /haɪnd/
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- [hahynd]
- /haɪnd/
Definitions of hind word
- adjective hind situated in the rear or at the back; posterior: the hind legs of an animal. 1
- noun plural hind Zoology. the female of the deer, chiefly the red deer, especially in and after the third year. 1
- noun plural hind any of several speckled serranid fishes of the genus Epinephelus, found in the warmer waters of the western Atlantic Ocean. 1
- noun hind a peasant or rustic. 1
- noun hind Scot. and North England. a farm laborer. 1
- noun hind (especially of a bodily part ) situated at the back; posterior. 1
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Origin of hind
First appearance:
before 1300 One of the 15% oldest English words
1300-50; Middle English hinde; compare Old English hindan (adv.) from behind, at the back; cognate with German hinten; see behind, hinder2
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Parts of speech for Hind
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
hind popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 97% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
hind usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for hind
adj hind
- postern — a back door or gate.
- behind — If something is behind a thing or person, it is on the other side of them from you, or nearer their back rather than their front.
- rearward — Also, rearwards. toward or in the rear.
- posterior — situated behind or at the rear of; hinder (opposed to anterior).
- tail — the limitation of an estate to a person and the person’s heirs or some particular class of such heirs.
adjective hind
- back — If you move back, you move in the opposite direction to the one in which you are facing or in which you were moving before.
Antonyms for hind
adj hind
- front — the foremost part or surface of anything.
- preceding — that precedes; previous: Refer back to the footnote on the preceding page.
- first — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
- beginning — The beginning of an event or process is the first part of it.
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