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womenfolks

womenfolks is the alternative form of womenfolk.

Meaning of womenfolk

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

Questions about womenfolks

What is womenfolks the alternative form of?
Womenfolks is the alternative form of womenfolk.

Words near womenfolks in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: womenfolks (page history and authors); womenfolk (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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