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ilk
1[ ilk ]
noun
- family, class, or kind:
he and all his ilk.
adjective
- same.
ilk
1/ ɪlk; ˈɪlkə /
determiner
- each; every
ilk
2/ ɪlk /
noun
- a type; class; sort (esp in the phrase of that, his, her, etc, ilk )
people of that ilk should not be allowed here
- of that ilkof the place of the same name: used to indicate that the person named is proprietor or laird of the place named
Moncrieff of that ilk
Usage
Word History and Origins
Origin of ilk1
Word History and Origins
Origin of ilk1
Origin of ilk2
Idioms and Phrases
- of that ilk,
- (in Scotland) of the same family name or place:
Ross of that ilk, i.e., Ross of Ross.
- of the same class or kind.
Example Sentences
Pastor Gaylard Williams earned a good reputation among his evangelical ilk.
We can thank Lisa Kudrow for the rise of celeb reality TV—Real Housewives, the Kardashians, Honey Boo Boo and its ilk.
To complicate matters further, the only people who seemed to have any desire to go after Booker were of the conspiracy-theory ilk.
Like maybe the line that Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others of their ilk are pushing?
All right, so we know that Loestrin and its ilk are, as Redmond terms it, “hair-unfriendly pills.”
Was the second Charles one whit more desirable than the first of that ilk?
A three days journey from Barzan takes the traveller to the domain of the great rival of the chief of that ilk, viz.
I felt hopeful that for a time at least I should see the last of stewards and their ilk.
This takes us back to a century and a half before the Conquest; and it was one of this ilk who was the last of the deans.
Here were to be found small shops, cheap boarding houses, palmists, clairvoyants and others of their ilk.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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