Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Women considered as a group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Women in general; the female sex; the females collectively of the human kind.
- noun A body of women, especially in a household; the female members of a family.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The females of the human race; women, collectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Women , taken collectively.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun women as distinguished from men
Etymologies
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Examples
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For a man who cannot command his womankind is a fool. '
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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For a man who cannot command his womankind is a fool. '
A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010
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For a man who cannot command his womankind is a fool. '
A Hyperborean Brew 1904
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His modesty at the mention of womankind is notable.
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I am a man who can now have no joy in womankind, but when as a brother I protect them.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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And I promise you that, at this moment, if there be pillows sleepless yonder in the camp for the sake of the costly fragile toys called womankind, those jackasses of lovelorn lads have cause to regret the sojourn of Queen Margaret in
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 Various
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Men, especially lovers, are addicted to the innocent fatuity of preferring to protect weakness rather than to admire courage in womankind.
Indiana 1900
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He had not only lost his love, but what is more precious than love – faith in womankind.
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` ` Ah, poor fellow! nothing can be more melancholy; unless, as young men sometimes do, you had fancied yourself in love with some trumpery specimen of womankind, which is indeed, as Shakspeare truly says, pressing to death, whipping, and hanging all at once. ''
The Antiquary 1845
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"Ah, poor fellow! nothing can be more melancholy; unless, as young men sometimes do, you had fancied yourself in love with some trumpery specimen of womankind, which is indeed, as Shakspeare truly says, pressing to death, whipping, and hanging all at once."
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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