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hind

/haɪnd/

hind adjective: located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).

Adjective

hind (comparative hinder, superlative hindmost)

  1. Located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
    • Fareweel, my rhyme-compoſing billie! / Your native ſoil was right ill-willie; / But may ye flouriſh like a lily, / Now bonilie! / I'll toaſt ye in my hindmoſt gillie, / Tho' owre the Sea!1786 July 31, Robert Burns, “On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire: Printed by John Wilson, →OCLC; reprinted Kilmarnock...
    • When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor...
  2. Backward; to the rear.

Noun (1)

hind (countable and uncountable, plural hind or hinds)

  1. A doe (female deer), especially a red deer at least two years old.
    • Nature binds all creatures to love their young ones; an hen to preserve her brood will run upon a lion, an hind will fight with a bull, a sow with a bear, a silly sheep with a fox.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III...
    • The ſpring diſplaying her elegant taſte, the proud walk of the gold-feathered pheaſant, the light tread of the ſmall-hoofed hind, and the dancing of the ſtar-trained peacock, infuſed joy into the ſoul of the ſpectator of the aſtoniſhing works of the Creator.1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page v
    Synonyms:
    doe
  2. A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.

Noun (2)

hind (plural hinds)

  1. (archaic) A servant, especially an agricultural labourer.
    • Attilius Regulus […] writ vnto the common-wealth, that a hynde, or plough-boy whom he had left alone to over-ſee and husband his land (which in all was but ſeaven acres of ground) was run away from his charge[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Parcimony of Our Forefathers”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 167
    • The farmers ſervants who have families, and engage by the year, are called hinds, and receive 10 bolls oats, 2 bolls barley, and 1 boll peas, which two laſt articles are called hummel corn, […]1792, Robert Bowmaker, “Number LI. Parish of Dunse, (County of Berwick.)”, in John Sinclair, editor, The Statistical Account of Scotland. Drawn Up from the Communications of the Ministers of the...

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Hind

Hind (plural Hinds)

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Hind

Hind

  1. Synonym of Hindustan.
    • Jai Hind!
    Synonyms:
    Hindustan

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Hind

Hind

  1. A female given name from Arabic.

hind meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

hind in Hindi

female deer
हिरनी hirnī

hind in Tamil

பின்னுள்ள, பின்பகுதியில் உள்ள, பின், பின்னால், பெண் மான்

hind in Marathi

हिंद

hind in Urdu

پچھلا حصہ, پچھواڑا, ہرنی
More languagesFewer languages
hind in Bengali
হিন্দ, হিন্দ্
hind in Telugu
హింద్, హిండ్
hind in Malayalam
പിൻ, പുറകേയുള്ള, പിറകുവശത്തുള്ള, പുറകിലുള്ള
hind in Kannada
ಕೆಂಬಣ್ಣದ ಹೆಣ್ಣು ಜಿಂಕೆ, ಬೇಸಾಯದ ಆಳು, ಹೊಲದಾಳು, ಮನೆವಾರ್ತೆಗಾರ
hind in Gujarati
હિંદ, હિન્દ
hind in Odia
ହିନ୍ଦ, ହିନ୍ଦ୍
hind in Nepali
हिन्ड
hind in Arabic
خَلْفِيّ ḵalfiyy

Examples of hind in a sentence

  • The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds.1827, Maria Elizabeth Budden, Nina, An Icelandic Tale, page 41:
  • that my brother can sit at leisure in a seat and learn something and I must work like a hind, who am your son as well as he!1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth:

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Synonyms of hind

Forms of hind

Adjective
comparativehinder
superlativehindmost
Noun
pluralhind
pluralhinds
Proper noun
pluralHinds
alternative formHynd

Plural of hind: hind or hinds

Origin of hind

From Middle English hinde, from Old English hindan (“at the rear, from behind”), Proto-Germanic *hinder (“behind, beyond”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱem-ta- (“down, below, with, far, along, against”), from *ḱóm (“beside, near, by, with”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽𐌰 (hindana, “from beyond”), Old Norse hindr (“obstacle”), Old Norse handan (“from that side, beyond”), Old High German hintana (“behind”), German hinter (“behind, beyond”), Old English hinder (“behind, back, in the farthest part, down”), Latin contra (“in return, against”). More at hinder, contrary.

From Middle English hind, hinde, hynde, from Old English hind, Proto-West Germanic *hindu, from Proto-Germanic *hindō, *hindiz, from a formation on Proto-Indo-European *ḱem- (“hornless”). Cognate with Dutch hinde, German Hinde, Danish hind.

From Middle English hynd, hine, from Old English hī(ġ)na, genitive plural of hīġa (“servant, family member”), in the phrase hīna fæder ‘paterfamilias’. The -d is a later addition (compare sound). Compare Old Frisian hinde (“servant”).

Words formed from hind

Phrases with hind

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Questions about hind

What does hind mean?
Hind means located at the rear (most often said of animals' body parts).
What is hind in Hindi?
Hind in Hindi is हिरनी (hirnī). See Hind meaning in Hindi.
How do you use hind in a sentence?
The peaceful tenour of Nina's life was interrupted one morning by the mysterious looks and whisperings of her maids and hinds.
What part of speech is hind?
Hind can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce hind?
Hind is pronounced /haɪnd/.

Words near hind in the dictionary

  1. Hinckley
  2. Hinckley and Bosworth
  3. Hinckleys
  4. Hincks
  5. hincty
  6. hind
  7. hind body
  8. hind claw
  9. hind claws
  10. hind feet
  11. hind foot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hind (page history and authors); Hind (page history and authors); hind (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hind (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hind (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hind (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hind (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hind (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); hind (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hind (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hind (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hind (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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