humanoid

[hyoo-muh-noid or, often, yoo-]

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adjective

having human characteristics or form; resembling human beings.

noun

a humanoid being: to search for humanoids in outer space.

Origin of humanoid

First recorded in 1915–20; human + -oid

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Related Words for humanoid

personal, hominoid, individual, animal, mortal, anthropoid, biped, hominid, anthropomorphic, anthropomorphous, civilized, fallible, fleshly, forgivable, anthropological, bipedal, creatural, ethological, hominine, humanistic

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Historical Examples of humanoid

Physiologically, the Lhari are—well, humanoid, if you like that better.
The Colors of Space
Marion Zimmer Bradley
All the smart people on Terra, he explained, had Sheshan humanoid servants.
The Cosmic Computer
Henry Beam Piper
Though he was humanoid, Earth had never seen creatures just like him.
The Black Star Passes
John W Campbell
From that they derive the secondary assumption that humanoid types will be scarce.
The Galaxy Primes
Edward Elmer Smith
While humanoid, the creature was very far indeed from being human.
The Galaxy Primes
Edward Elmer Smith

British Dictionary definitions for humanoid

humanoid

adjective

like a human being in appearance

noun

a being with human rather than anthropoid characteristics

(in science fiction) a robot or creature resembling a human being

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Word Origin and History for humanoid

1912 (adj.), an anthropological hybrid from human + -oid. As a noun, from 1925. Earlier (1906) brand name of a type of cow's milk altered to be closer to human milk intended as food for infants.