Ilk Definition
ĭlk
noun
Kind; sort; class.
Webster's New World
pronoun
The same. Used following a name to indicate that the one named resides in an area bearing the same name.
Duncan of that ilk.
American Heritage
adjective
Same; like.
Webster's New World
Each; every.
Webster's New World
(Scotland and Northern England) The same.
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Ilk
Noun
Singular:
ilk
Plural:
ilksOrigin of Ilk
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From Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”).
From Wiktionary
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The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase ‘of that ilk’ to families: the word thus came to mean ‘family’.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English ilke same from Old English ilca i- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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