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(rare) A female advisor.
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(rare) A female alderman; an alderwoman.
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(rare) A female alderman.
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(rare, proscribed) Alternative letter-case form of Amazoness [(rare, proscribed) An Amazon.]
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Obsolete form of anchoress (“female anchorite”). [A female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.]
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(Celtic paganism) A chief druidess; a female archdruid.
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(rare) A female aristocrat.
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(rare) A female autocrat; an autocratrix.
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(dated) A woman in charge of the cellar in a convent.
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A female consul or the wife of one.
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A female member of a council, especially a city council; now often replaced by gender-neutral councilor (British, councillor).
adj
(law) Covert, under coverture; married.
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(Britain) Usually capitalized as Dame: a title equivalent to Sir for a female knight.
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A female servant in the early Christian church.
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(rare) A female dean (head of a university faculty).
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Alternative form of dictatress [A female dictator.]
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(archaic) A female dictator.
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A dominating woman; a female dominator.
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(nonstandard) A countess (a female holder of an earldom or the wife of an earl).
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Alternative form of electress [(rare, dated) A woman who can vote in an election.]
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(dated) A female founder.
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(US, politics) A female member of a legislature, especially a female member of a House of Representatives.
n
(business, informal) A woman who is a director on several boards.
n
Nonstandard form of governess. [A woman paid to educate children in their own home.]
adj
(informal) governesslike
n
(rare) A female grandmaster.
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(rare) Alternative form of hostess-ship [The state or position of being a hostess.]
n
A man in charge of a house in a boarding school
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The master of a house; the head of a family; a householder.
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female inheritor; heiress
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see lady, presidentress.
n
(English and Commonwealth) Formal form of address for a lady judge (as opposed to the informal "judge").
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(UK) A female leader (especially an autocratic one)
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Alternative form of majordomo: chief servant of a large house; a similar position in other contexts. [The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.]
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The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.
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(obsolete, Roman law) The power over other people, especially that of a man over his wife.
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(figuratively) A prince among merchants: a wealthy and influential merchant.
adv
Pronunciation spelling of off, representing African-American Vernacular English. [In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point.]
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(rare) A female overlord.
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(archaic) A female politician.
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(now rare) A female preceptor, or provider of moral instruction; a teacher.
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(archaic) The wife of a prelate.
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(archaic) A female president.
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(politics, informal, rare) The title of a female president; a presidentress
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(rare, nonstandard, now chiefly US) A priestess.
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A non-royal high title of nobility, especially in France and the Holy Roman Empire.
n
A petty prince; a princeling.
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A type of court card in the Tarot pack, coming between the 10 and the prince (Jack).
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Alternative form of rectoress [A governess; a rectrix.]
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Alternative form of senatress [(uncommon) A female senator.]
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(rare) Traditionally used as a term of address for a female senator in parliamentary proceedings in some Senates like those of the United States, Canada and France .
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to a knight or other low member of the peerage.
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Alternative form of teacheress [(archaic except India) A female teacher.]
n
An inferior or subordinate queen.
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A female representative.
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(archaic) A woman who has taken religious vows, especially a vow of chastity.
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(archaic) Used as a closing of a personal letter.
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(ecclesiastical) A nun who oversees the behaviour of young nuns.
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