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anchoress

anchoress noun: a female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.

Noun (1)

anchoress (plural anchoresses)

  1. A female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.
    • … and advises the anchoresses to take on the basic religious vows …2003, Yōko Wada, “A Genre of Ancrene Wisse”, in A Companion to Ancrene Wisse, DS Brewer, →ISBN, page 39
    Synonyms:
    anchoritess

Noun (2)

anchoress (plural anchoresses)

  1. (informal) An anchorwoman.
    • Williams was co-hosting in place of Katie Couric, a move some have speculated was meant to deprive the possible next anchoress of the CBS Evening News the prime time exposure.2006 February 11, James Poniewozik, “Live from Turin—Sorry, Torino—It's NBC”, in Time, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2014
    • Mr. Thompson reportedly booted executives off a cross-continental Citigroup flight to be alone with the impeccably brunette anchoress.2007 April 16, Max Abelson, “Sold! 'Money Honey,' Hubby Buy $6.5 M. East Side Townhouse”, in New York Observer, retrieved 25 Jan 2012

anchoress meaning in Urdu

anchoress in Urdu

تارکُ الدُنِیا عورَت, جوگَن, بیراگن, زاہِدَہ

Synonyms of anchoress

Forms of anchoress

pluralanchoresses
alternative formanchress

Origin of anchoress

From Middle English ankres, ankerisse, anchoryse; equivalent to anchor + -ess.

From anchor + -ess.

Questions about anchoress

What does anchoress mean?
Anchoress means a female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.
What is anchoress in Urdu?
Anchoress in Urdu is تارکُ الدُنِیا عورَت, جوگَن, بیراگن. See Anchoress meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is anchoress?
Anchoress is a noun.
What is the plural of anchoress?
The plural of anchoress is anchoresses.

Words near anchoress in the dictionary

  1. anchorages
  2. anchoral
  3. anchored
  4. anchorer
  5. anchorers
  6. anchoress
  7. anchoresses
  8. anchoret
  9. anchoreth
  10. anchoretic
  11. anchoretical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anchoress (page history and authors); anchoress (Urdu 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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