adjudicatress
/æ.d͡ʒu.dɪˈkeɪ.tɹɛs/
adjudicatress noun: a woman or girl who adjudicates; an adjudicatrix; a female adjudicator.
Noun
adjudicatress (plural adjudicatresses)
- A woman or girl who adjudicates; an adjudicatrix; a female adjudicator.
- In the interesting and amusing bed-making and clothes-pegging contests at the Methodist Church Bazaar on Thursday night the entries were large, and the competitors included some young and middle-aged gentlemen who, quite evidently, had made many a bed and hung out many a suit of pyjamas on the line...1913, Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 77, page 2
- Hamlet was their entry in 1957, the third major dramatic production of the School year. The ten member cast got high praise from the adjudicatress, whose concluding sentence read: "This was an outstanding production for a Youth Festival."1978, J. Graham Patriquin, From Little Forks to Moulton Hill Vol 1, page 157
Forms of adjudicatress
| plural | adjudicatresses |
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Origin of adjudicatress
From adjudicat(o)r + -ess.
Questions about adjudicatress
- What does adjudicatress mean?
- Adjudicatress means a woman or girl who adjudicates; an adjudicatrix; a female adjudicator.
- What part of speech is adjudicatress?
- Adjudicatress is a noun.
- How do you pronounce adjudicatress?
- Adjudicatress is pronounced /æ.d͡ʒu.dɪˈkeɪ.tɹɛs/.
- What is the plural of adjudicatress?
- The plural of adjudicatress is adjudicatresses.
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