adulteress
adulteress noun: a female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
Noun
adulteress (plural adulteresses)
- A female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
- And the righteous men, they shall iudge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their handes.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 23:45
- Do you know what he’s going to endure if he marries a woman the whole community thinks is an adulteress?2021 [2001], John Eldredge, chapter 10, in Wild at Heart, Expanded edition, Nelson Books, →ISBN, page 170
- Synonyms:
- adulterer, advoutress
adulteress meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Malayalam
adulteress in Hindi
- woman or girl who commits adultery
- स्वैरिणी svairiṇī, वेश्या veśyā
adulteress in Urdu
- زانویہ
adulteress in Telugu
- an adulteress
- వ్యభిచారి vyabhicāri
- adulteress
- జారిణి jāriṇi, జారస్త్రీ jārastrī, ఱంకుటాలు ṟaṅkuṭālu
adulteress in Malayalam
- woman or girl who commits adultery
- വ്യഭിചാരിണി vyabhicāriṇi
More languagesFewer languages
- adulteress in Kannada
- ಹಡಬೆ, ದುಂಡೆ
- adulteress in Arabic
- زَانِيَة zāniya
Synonyms of adulteress
Forms of adulteress
| plural | adulteresses |
|---|---|
| alternative form | adultress |
Origin of adulteress
From adulter (noun) + -ess. In later use typically apprehended as the female equivalent corresponding to adulterer instead.
Questions about adulteress
- What does adulteress mean?
- Adulteress means a female adulterer, a married woman or wife who commits adultery.
- What is adulteress in Hindi?
- Adulteress in Hindi is स्वैरिणी (svairiṇī), वेश्या (veśyā). See Adulteress meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is adulteress?
- Adulteress is a noun.
- What is the plural of adulteress?
- The plural of adulteress is adulteresses.
Words near adulteress in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: adulteress (page history and authors); adulteress (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); జారస్త్రీ (Telugu) (page history and authors); adulteress (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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