hind
adjective
situated in the rear or at the back; posterior.
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hind
1 American
[hahynd]
/ haɪnd /
adjective
hind
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American
[hahynd]
/ haɪnd /
noun
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hinds,
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hind
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Zoology. the female of the deer, chiefly the red deer, especially in and after the third year.
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any of several speckled serranid fishes of the genus Epinephelus, found in the warmer waters of the western Atlantic Ocean.
hind
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American
[hahynd]
/ haɪnd /
noun
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a peasant or rustic.
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Scot. and North England. a farm laborer.
Hind
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abbreviation
Hind.
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abbreviation
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Hindi.
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Hindu.
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Hindustan.
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Hindustani.
Hind.
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abbreviation
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Hindi
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Hindu
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Hindustan
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Hindustani
hind
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British
/ haɪnd /
noun
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a simple peasant
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(in N Britain) a skilled farm worker
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a steward
hind
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British
/ haɪnd /
noun
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the female of the deer, esp the red deer when aged three years or more
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any of several marine serranid fishes of the genus Epinephelus, closely related and similar to the gropers
hind
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British
/ haɪnd /
adjective
Synonym Usage
See back 1.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of hind1
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English hinde, hint (adjective) “hind, rear, back,” shortening of bihinde(n) (adverb) “in the rear, in back,” from Old English behindan (preposition and adverb) “behind; from behind, at the back”; cognate with German hinten; see also behind, hinder 2
Origin of hind2
First recorded before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Dutch hinde, Old Norse, Danish, Swedish hind, Old High German hinta ( German, Low German Hinde )
Origin of hind3
First recorded before 1000; alteration of Middle English hine “a household, servants (collectively), a servant,” probably from Old English (Anglian) hīne, hī(g)na, genitive of hīgan (equivalent to West Saxon hīwan “members of a household, domestics”); cf. hide 3
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Another of his horses was named in the Guinness Book of Records for the fastest 10-metre dash while on hind legs -- a sprightly 4.19 seconds.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Cox had expected to have three horses in the Derby but the barn was hit with some bad news on Thursday morning, when Fulleffort was scratched due to a chip in his left hind ankle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
The Daily Racing Form, which first reported the news, said Fulleffort has a chip in his left hind ankle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
An army of people would spend a week or two searching for tiger tracks and making tracings or plaster casts of the left hind foot.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2026
The water monster rolled back onto his hind legs and raised his head toward the rising sun.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
In 2024 he released "Hind's Hall," which pays tribute to Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl whose death sparked a wave of international outrage.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The military’s own prosecutors will conduct criminal investigations into one attack that killed a young girl named Hind Rajab and another that took the lives of 15 medical responders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
This is the first time the IDF has admitted opening fire on the vehicle carrying Hind and her family.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The director of The Voice of Hind Rajab explains how the real-life emergency call of a five-year-old Gazan girl became the basis for an acclaimed film.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2026
In the mid-afternoon he came back to the Near Hind relaxed and confident, and slept until one of the sentries woke him for silflay.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
"Wahsh," which Galland translates "Tiger," and is followed by his Hind. translator.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Hind. charpoy = that which has four feet or legs.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
The only appellative for a river which I find derived from its sound is the Sanscrit nadi, Hind. nuddy, from nad, sonare.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Sand-pig, or, as Jerdon has it, Bhalu-soor, Hind., i.e.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
"I'd like to issue former condolences to oliver stark, aisha hinds, angela bassett, and the rest of the 911 cast for having to work with ryan guzman," said another.
From Fox News ● Jun. 1, 2020
“Two hinds graze in our fallow garden,” she continues.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2020
But fewer dream of shooting the hinds – the most effective way of arresting population growth – and so the responsibility falls to the owners.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 20, 2018
The annual cull of red deer hinds ends on Monday but several estates stopped shooting weeks ago, when it became clear that large numbers of deer were starving to death.
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2010
By the look of them it was a single deer, probably a buck: they don’t pick up their feet as high as hinds do, and Torak saw drag marks in the snow.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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