Meanings
nouncatkind (uncountable)
- uncountableAll cats, considered as a group.
What Eliot had in mind by writing "Growltiger's Last Stand" is difficult to say unless it was to present catkind in one of its most deplorable states.
1978, Francelia Butler, editor, Children's literature, Volume 7
Origin
From cat + -kind, by anology with mankind.
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APA
catkind. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catkind
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“catkind.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catkind. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “catkind,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catkind.
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