hind
pronunciation
How to pronounce hind in British English:
UK [haɪnd]
How to pronounce hind in American English:
US [haɪnd]
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- Noun:
- any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers
- female red deer
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- Adjective:
- located at or near the back of an animal
Word Origin
- hind
- hind: English has two words hind. The adjective meaning ‘rear’ [13] probably came mainly from behind, a compound formed in Old English times from bi- ‘by’ and hindan ‘from behind’, whose ultimate origins are unknown. Related are German hinter ‘behind’, the first element of hinterland, which English borrowed in the 19th century, and the verb hinder [OE], etymologically ‘put behind or back’. Hind ‘female deer’ [OE] comes ultimately from Indo- European *kemti-, a derivative of *kem- ‘hornless’.=> behind, hinder, hinterland
- hind (adj.)
- c. 1300, "rear, back," perhaps a back-formation from Old English behindan "back, behind," used as adverb and preposition, or from or influenced by Old English hindan (adv.) "from behind," from Proto-Germanic *hind- "behind" (cognate with Gothic hindan (prep.) "on that side of, beyond, behind;" German hinten "behind"), of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Middle English hiner (adv.) "back, rear."
- hind (n.)
- "female deer," Old English hind, from Proto-Germanic *hinthjo- (cognates: Old Norse hind, Dutch hinde, Old High German hinta, German Hinde "hind") perhaps from PIE *kemti-, from root *kem- "hornless" (cognates: Greek kemas, Lithuanian smulas "young deer, gazelle").
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Example
- 1. Magic has some old healed fractures in her hind leg .
- 2. How long is menstrual hind crises , other be safety period ?
- 3. Tailless cat with hind limbs longer than its forelimbs .
- 4. Naphtali is a hind let loose : he giveth goodly words .
- 5. Before long my daughter namely my hind mother gave birth to a son .