What does fair sex mean?

fair sex means "women as a class".

What is another word for fair sex?

Close synonyms include womanhood, woman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fair sex a common word?

fair sex is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Fair sex — meaning, 2 synonyms and examples

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
women as a class
“it's an insult to American womanhood”
“woman is the glory of creation”
“the fair sex gathered on the veranda”
Synonymswomanhood woman
Broaderclass
Part ofwomankind

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