"womankind" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-womankind.wav
Etymology: From Middle English wommankynde. By surface analysis, woman + -kind. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|wommankynde}} Middle English wommankynde, {{surface analysis|en|woman|-kind}} By surface analysis, woman + -kind Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} womankind (uncountable)
  1. Women, taken collectively. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Collectives, Female, People Synonyms: petticoats, skirts Translations (woman, taken collectively): жените (ženite) (Bulgarian), virinaro (Esperanto), naissugu (Estonian), naissuku (Finnish), akkaväki [dated, offensive] (Finnish), hameväki (english: potentially offensive) (Finnish), naisväki (Finnish), vaimoväki [dated] (Finnish), femmes [feminine, plural] (French), weibliches Geschlecht [neuter] (German), Frauenwelt [feminine, obsolete, rare] (German), Weiberleut [Austrian, Bavarian, colloquial, pejorative] (German), naissuku (Ingrian), bantracht [feminine] (Irish), wīfcynn [neuter] (Old English), женскиње [Cyrillic, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), ženskinje [Roman, neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), kvinnosläkt [neuter] (Swedish), жіно́цтво (žinóctvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian)
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