Usually means: Type or kind of people.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word ilk:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ilk: Merriam-Webster
  2. ilk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ilk, ilk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ilk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ilk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ilk, ilk: Wordnik
  7. ilk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ilk: Wiktionary
  9. ilk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ilk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ilk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ilk, ilk: Dictionary.com
  13. ilk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ilk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ilk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ilk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ilk: Rhymezone
  18. Ilk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ilk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Ilk: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. ilk: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ilk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ilk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. ilk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. ilk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ilk: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ILK: Acronym Finder
  2. ILK: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. ilk: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ilk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ilk: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ilk)

▸ adjective:  (Scotland and Northern England) Very; same.
▸ noun:  A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

Similar:
amensh, ilka, Leal, Whitely, blate, scotch, northern, Locken, freelage, sere, more...

Opposite:
unlike, dissimilar, different, unrelated

Phrases:
of that ilk, tigers and their ilk, gorillas and their ilk, bilbo and his ilk, similar ilk, more...

Adjectives:
same, similar, different, own, such, conservative, worst, like, radical, lesser, obvious

Colors:
    ivory,     lavender,     khaki,     indigo,     lilac, more...


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Similar:
amensh, ilka, Leal, Whitely, blate, scotch, northern, Locken, freelage, sere, more...

Opposite:
unlike, dissimilar, different, unrelated

Phrases:
of that ilk, tigers and their ilk, gorillas and their ilk, bilbo and his ilk, similar ilk, hawks and their ilk, donkeys and their ilk, apples and their ilk, more...

Adjectives:
same, similar, different, own, such, conservative, worst, like, radical, lesser, obvious

Colors:
    ivory,     lavender,     khaki,     indigo,     lilac, more...



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