womenkind
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of womenkind
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English wommen kynde; see women, kind 2
Example Sentences
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"One small step for women, one giant leap for womenkind."
From BBC • Jul. 17, 2017
The “women” Greer addresses are not the majority of womenkind – she concedes that she does not “know” poor people – but people like herself, university graduates, the comparatively privileged members of the western democracies.
From The Guardian • Apr. 25, 2016
Even the Civil Guards unbent, dancing their babies, lending their pikes to delighted urchins, and raising forbidden curtains to give their womenkind furtive peeps into the royal apartments.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee
My womenkind like Sir F., partly perhaps because I have said something about my 'intentions.'
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund
The three swaying forms—for they swayed keeping time to the music that never ceased—resembled one's idea of goddesses rather than familiar womenkind.
From Lotus Buds by Carmichael, Amy
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