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
We Thetians love our country as we love our womenkind.
From The Traitors by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
For the most part, their own daughters are the last among womenkind to whom men turn, to reap something of the freshness and fairness of the younger generation they have sown and laboured for.
From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Kenealy, Arabella
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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