hominid

1. 1.

   characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures

   Synonymshominian

   Similarhuman

Other forms of hominid

plural

hominids·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hominid

What does hominid mean?

hominid means "a primate of the family Hominidae". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hominid?

hominid has 3 syllables: ho-mi-nid. The stress falls on "ho". In IPA it is /ˈhɑmənɪd/.

What is another word for hominid?

Close synonyms include hominian. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hominid a common word?

hominid is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.