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noun
- family, class, or kind: he and all his ilk.
adjective
- same.
- of that ilk,
- (in Scotland) of the same family name or place: Ross of that ilk, i.e., Ross of Ross.
- of the same class or kind.
pronoun
- each.
adjective
- each; every.
noun
- a type; class; sort (esp in the phrase of that, his, her, etc, ilk)people of that ilk should not be allowed here
- of that ilk Scot of the place of the same name: used to indicate that the person named is proprietor or laird of the place namedMoncrieff of that ilk
determiner
- Scot each; every
Old English ilca “same” (n. and adj.), from Proto-Germanic *ij-lik, in which the first element is from the PIE demonstrative particle *i- (see yon) and the second is that in Old English -lic “form” (see like). Of similar formation are which and such. Phrase of that ilk implies coincidence of name and estate, as in Lundie of Lundie; applied usually to families, so by c.1790 it began to be used with meaning “family,” then broadening to “type, sort.”
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