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womenfolk

womenfolk noun: women collectively.

Noun

womenfolk pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) Women collectively.
  2. (plural, plural-only) The adult female members of a community.
    • “Ain’t she a splendid specimen of Southern womanhood?” Rufus asked. “Down yonder, they teach their womenfolks to serve.”1962, James Baldwin, Another Country, New York, N. Y.: The Dial Press, published January 1963, page 25

womenfolk meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Tagalog

womenfolk in Tamil

womenfolk
பெண்சனம் peṇcaṉam

womenfolk in Urdu

عورتیں, جنس زن

womenfolk in Tagalog

women collectively
kababaihan

Synonyms of womenfolk

Forms of womenfolk

alternative formwomenfolks

Origin of womenfolk

Compound of women + folk.

Questions about womenfolk

What does womenfolk mean?
Womenfolk means women collectively.
What is womenfolk in Tamil?
Womenfolk in Tamil is பெண்சனம் (peṇcaṉam). See Womenfolk meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is womenfolk?
Womenfolk is a noun.

Words near womenfolk in the dictionary

  1. women-centric
  2. women-children
  3. womenandchildren
  4. womencentric
  5. womenchildren
  6. womenfolk
  7. womenfolks
  8. womenkind
  9. womenless
  10. womens
  11. womenservants

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: womenfolk (page history and authors); பெண்சனம் (Tamil) (page history and authors); womenfolk (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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