FAIR SEX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fair sex mean? 

• FAIR SEX (noun)
  The noun FAIR SEX has 1 sense:

1. women as a class

  Familiarity information: FAIR SEX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAIR SEX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Women as a class

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

fair sex; woman; womanhood

Context example:

the fair sex gathered on the veranda

Hypernyms ("fair sex" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Holonyms ("fair sex" is a member of...):

womankind (women as distinguished from men)

 Context examples 

“Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department,” said Holmes, with a smile, when the dwindling frou-frou of skirts had ended in the slam of the front door.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)