womankind

English

Etymology

From Middle English wommankynde. By surface analysis, woman +‎ -kind.

Noun

womankind (uncountable)

1. Women, taken collectively.

   Synonyms: petticoats, skirts

   Hypernym: mankind

   Alternative form: womenkind

Translations

woman, taken collectively

• 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)

Further reading

• “womankind”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “womankind”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.