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    Womankind means all women, thought of together as one large group — women as a whole part of the human race, not the women in one room or one family. You meet it in big, serious statements: "a great day for womankind", "his contempt for womankind". It is a formal, rather literary, old-sounding word. Nobody says it in ordinary conversation; it belongs to speeches, poems, and writing that wants to sound grand. It has no plural and takes a singular verb. It was built to stand beside mankind (all people) and its partner word , and it usually appears where a writer wants that wide, sweeping feeling. Because mankind itself now sounds unfair to many people — humankind is the modern replacement — womankind can feel like a word from another century too, though a writer may still choose it on purpose for exactly that old flavour.

    女性(全體)、婦女界;泛指所有女人

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組成woman + -kind. Here -kind does not mean "friendly". It is the old word kind meaning "type, sort, race", so womankind is literally "the woman sort of people". From Middle English wommankynde.

同家族的字

  • mankindsame -kind, meaning all human beings
  • humankindsame -kind; the modern, fairer version of mankind
  • womenfolkalso built from woman, also means women as a group

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

womankindnoun

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    Women, taken collectively.

    • The infinite simplicity and silliness of mankind and womankind at large were too well known to the Serjeant to cause him dismay, let them be shown in ever so egregious a fashion.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。