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archeress

/ˈɑːtʃəɹɪs/

archeress noun: a female archer.

archeress: a female archer
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Noun

archeress (plural archeresses)

  1. A female archer.
    • […] looking very much as they must have looked when Queen Elizabeth deigned to show her skill as an archeress, to the detriment of the dappled deer in the wide park beyond.1878, John Berwick Harwood, Helena, lady Harrogate, page 11
    • Catharine was a tolerable archeress with the long-bow, and the hut was now seldom without game of one kind or other.1882, Catherine Parr Traill, Lost in the Backwoods

archeress meaning in Tamil

archeress in Tamil

வில்லாளி, விற்றொழில் கைவந்த பெண்

Synonyms of archeress

Forms of archeress

pluralarcheresses

Origin of archeress

From archer + -ess.

Questions about archeress

What does archeress mean?
Archeress means a female archer.
What is archeress in Tamil?
Archeress in Tamil is வில்லாளி, விற்றொழில் கைவந்த பெண். See Archeress meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is archeress?
Archeress is a noun.
How do you pronounce archeress?
Archeress is pronounced /ˈɑːtʃəɹɪs/ (UK).
What is the plural of archeress?
The plural of archeress is archeresses.

Words near archeress in the dictionary

  1. archepiscopally
  2. archer
  3. Archer City
  4. Archer County
  5. archer's paradox
  6. archeress
  7. archeresses
  8. archerfish
  9. archerfishes
  10. archeries
  11. archeriid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: archeress (page history and authors); archeress (Tamil 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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