hinds
hinds is the plural of hind.
Meaning of hind
Noun (1)
hind (countable and uncountable, plural hind or hinds)
- 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...
- Synonyms:
- doe
- A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus.
Noun (2)
hind (plural hinds)
- 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
Proper noun capitalized: Hinds
Hinds (countable and uncountable, plural Hindses)
- A surname.
- A small town and river (the Hinds River) in south Canterbury, New Zealand.
Forms of hinds
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Words formed from hinds
Phrases with hinds
Questions about hinds
- What does hinds mean?
- Hinds means a surname.
- What is hinds the plural of?
- Hinds is the plural of hind.
- What part of speech is hinds?
- Hinds is a proper noun.
Words near hinds in the dictionary
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