womankind en · NOUN
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Etymology
From Middle English wommankynde. By surface analysis, woman + -kind.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Women, taken collectively.
The infinite simplicity and silliness of mankind and womankind at large were too well known to the Serjeant to cause him dismay, let them be shown in ever so egregious a fashion.
1871 (date written), Anthony Trollope, “It isn’t Law”, in Lady Anna. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1874, →OCLC, page 111:
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Synonyms
skirts · petticoats · monstrous regiment · womanhood
Translations (22)
ang wīfcynn (woman, taken collectively) · sh женскиње (woman, taken collectively) · ga bantracht (woman, taken collectively) · pl kobiety (woman, taken collectively) · sq grani (woman, taken collectively) · fi naissuku (woman, taken collectively) · sh ženskinje (woman, taken collectively) · fi hameväki (woman, taken collectively) · et naissugu (woman, taken collectively) · fi vaimoväki (woman, taken collectively) · izh naissuku (woman, taken collectively) · sq grari (woman, taken collectively) · fi naisväki (woman, taken collectively) · de Frauenwelt (woman, taken collectively) · de weibliches Geschlecht (woman, taken collectively) · uk жіно́цтво (woman, taken collectively) · bg жените (woman, taken collectively) · eo virinaro (woman, taken collectively) · fi akkaväki (woman, taken collectively) · fr femmes (woman, taken collectively) · de Weiberleut (woman, taken collectively) · sv kvinnosläkt (woman, taken collectively)