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English
Etymology
From Middle English wommankynde. By surface analysis, woman + -kind.
Pronunciation
Noun
womankind (uncountable)
- Women, taken collectively.
- Alternative form: womenkind
- Synonyms: petticoats, skirts, monstrous regiment (humouristic)
- Hypernym: mankind
1871 (date written), Anthony Trollope, “It isn’t Law”, in Lady Anna. In Two Volumes.">…], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1874, →OCLC, page 111: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.
Translations
woman, taken collectively
- Albanian: grari (sq), (Gheg) grani (sq)
- Bulgarian: жените (bg) (ženite)
- Esperanto: virinaro
- Estonian: naissugu
- Finnish: naissuku, akkaväki (dated, offensive), hameväki (fi) (potentially offensive), naisväki (fi), vaimoväki (dated)
- French: femmes (fr) f pl
- German: weibliches Geschlecht n, Frauenwelt (de) f (obsolete, rare), Weiberleut (Bavarian, Austrian , colloquial, pejorative)
- Ingrian: naissuku
- Irish: bantracht f
- Old English: wīfcynn n
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: женскиње n
- Roman: ženskinje (sh) n
- Swedish: kvinnosläkt n
- Ukrainian: жіно́цтво n (žinóctvo)
- Woiwurrung: (please verify) woortbarrmgrookje
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Further reading
- “womankind”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “womankind”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.