womenkind

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   women considered collectively; womankind

   The speech praised the achievements of womenkind across many generations.

2. 2
   noun

   the women belonging to a particular family, community, or group, especially in archaic use

   The soldiers tried to move their wives and womenkind beyond the reach of the enemy.

Inherited from Middle English wommenkynde and now transparently women + -kind, where kind means a class or group. The form is a rarer counterpart of womankind and may refer either to women collectively or to the women associated with a family or group.

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