Word.ws English Dictionary

hominins

hominins is the plural of hominin.

Meaning of hominin

Noun

hominin (plural hominins)

  1. Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.
    • [...] prefer the third explanation for the advanced-looking features of Neandertals (Chapter 7) and the Ngandong hominins (Chapter 6), but they have had little to say about the post-Erectine archaics from China.2009, The Human Lineage, page 432

Phrases with hominins

Questions about hominins

What is hominins the plural of?
Hominins is the plural of hominin.

Words near hominins in the dictionary

  1. hominiform
  2. hominiforms
  3. hominin
  4. hominine
  5. hominines
  6. hominins
  7. hominisation
  8. hominise
  9. hominised
  10. hominises
  11. hominising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hominins (page history and authors); hominin (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-hominins.wav.

Cite this entry: “hominins.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hominins. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.