Meaning

2 senses
  1. Any anthropoid of the taxonomic family Hominidae, which includes all the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans) as well as humans.

    Hominide, Hominid, Hominidin

    гомини́дgominíd

  2. (archaic)Any human, the only members of the family Hominidae as traditionally defined.

    a primate of the family Hominidae

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Like dolphins or hominids, elephants also have a consciousness of self.

    deWie Delphine oder Menschenaffen verfügen auch Elefanten über ein Ich-Bewusstsein. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom is a hominid.

  3. What is a hominid?

  4. These early hominids hunted for food, cooked meat over fires and crafted a sophisticated array of flint tools.

  5. I'm a hominid.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
primate of the taxonomic family Hominidae:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
primate of the taxonomic family Hominidae:

Origin

Borrowed from Translingual Hominidae.

Borrowed from Translingual Hominidae.

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Forms

plural: hominids
Singularhominid
Pluralhominids

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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