Home › Words › F › femalefolkfemalefolkfemalefolk means womenfolk; female people collectively.EtymologyCompound of female + folk.nounWomenfolk; female people collectively.e.g.“In the meantime, the femalefolk of the house, after taking bath and wearing clean clothes, clean and arrange the articles of the pujā near the Thān.” — 1963, Amal Kumar Das, Manis Kumar Raha, The Orāons Of Sunderban, Government of West Bengal, page 301:A woman; a female person.e.g.“All the houses, numbering 42, were levelled to the ground, the male and femalefolks having taken shelter in the neighbouring jungles for fear of oppression.” — 1947, Govind Sahai, 42 Rebllion, Delhi: Rajkamal Publications LTD., page 299:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).