womenfolk

English

Etymology

women +‎ folk

Noun

womenfolk pl (plural only)

1. Women collectively.
2. 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