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actoress

actoress is the alternative form of actress.

Meaning of actress

Noun

actress (plural actresses)

  1. A female who performs on the stage or in films.
    • A while ago somewhere I don't know when / I was watchin' a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / She was playin' a part that I could understand1972, Neil Young, “A Man Needs a Maid”, in Harvest
  2. (archaic) A female doer or "actor" (in a general sense).
    • My mental anguish, and the dreadful scenes in which I had been an actress, advanced the period of my labour.1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 290

Forms of actoress

pluralactoresses

Origin of actoress

From actor + -ess.

Questions about actoress

What is actoress the alternative form of?
Actoress is the alternative form of actress.

Words near actoress in the dictionary

  1. actophorin
  2. actophotometer
  3. actophotometers
  4. actor
  5. actor-proof
  6. actoress
  7. actoresses
  8. actorfic
  9. actorfics
  10. actorial
  11. actorine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: actoress (page history and authors); actress (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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