WOMANKIND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does womankind mean? 

• WOMANKIND (noun)
  The noun WOMANKIND has 1 sense:

1. women as distinguished from men

  Familiarity information: WOMANKIND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOMANKIND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Women as distinguished from men

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("womankind" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Meronyms (members of "womankind"):

fair sex; woman; womanhood (women as a class)

 Context examples 

But he may please to consider, that the caprices of womankind are not limited by any climate or nation, and that they are much more uniform, than can be easily imagined.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It has dawned upon me that I have never placed a proper valuation upon womankind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Gentlemen, which means boys, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And at the dinner, where, with their womankind, were half a dozen of those that sat in high places, and where Martin found himself quite the lion, Judge Blount, warmly seconded by Judge Hanwell, urged privately that Martin should permit his name to be put up for the Styx—the ultra-select club to which belonged, not the mere men of wealth, but the men of attainment.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Last January, rid of all mistresses—in a harsh, bitter frame of mind, the result of a useless, roving, lonely life—corroded with disappointment, sourly disposed against all men, and especially against all womankind (for I began to regard the notion of an intellectual, faithful, loving woman as a mere dream), recalled by business, I came back to England.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was impossible to help laughing at the funny conflict between Laurie's chivalrous reluctance to speak ill of womankind, and his very natural dislike of the unfeminine folly of which fashionable society showed him many samples.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Perhaps my master might refine a little in these speculations, which he had drawn from what he observed himself, or had been told him by others; however, I could not reflect without some amazement, and much sorrow, that the rudiments of lewdness, coquetry, censure, and scandal, should have place by instinct in womankind.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)