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bankeress

bankeress noun: a female banker.

Noun

bankeress (plural bankeresses)

  1. (obsolete) A female banker.
    • I dined there a couple of months ago; and the bankeress said something about you1854, Arthur Pendennis [pseudonym; William Makepeace Thackeray], The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], →OCLC
  2. The wife of a banker

Forms of bankeress

pluralbankeresses

Origin of bankeress

From banker + -ess.

Questions about bankeress

What does bankeress mean?
Bankeress means a female banker.
What part of speech is bankeress?
Bankeress is a noun.
What is the plural of bankeress?
The plural of bankeress is bankeresses.

Words near bankeress in the dictionary

  1. banker's ramp
  2. bankeraceous
  3. bankerage
  4. bankerages
  5. bankerdom
  6. bankeress
  7. bankeresses
  8. bankerish
  9. bankerless
  10. bankerly
  11. bankers

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