womenfolk

English

Alternative forms

womenfolks

Etymology

women +‎ folk

Noun

womenfolk pl (plural only)

Women collectively.
The adult female members of a community.

Synonyms

ladyfolk (uncommon, chiefly dialectal and humorous)

Coordinate terms

menfolk

Translations

women collectively

Danish: kvindfolk n or n pl
Esperanto: virinaro
Finnish: naisväki (fi)
German: Frauensleute (de) pl (obsolete), Weibervolk (de) n (obsolescent, often pejorative), Weibsleute (de) (colloquial, obsolescent)
Hungarian: asszonynép (hu)
Irish: bantracht f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kvinnfolk n or n pl, på spinnesiden

Nynorsk: kvinnfolk n or n pl
Portuguese: mulherio (pt) m, mulherada (pt) f
Spanish: mujerío (es) m

adult female members of a community

Finnish: naisväki (fi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kvinnfolk n pl

Nynorsk: kvinnfolk n pl

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