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captress

captress noun: a female captor.

Noun

captress (plural captresses)

  1. a female captor.
    • At least the captress gets, or thinks she has got, what she wants.1867, Public Opinion, page 217
    • Murmurs of expectation, like the purrings of hungry flame, arose from the nearest, who hoped to share in the good fortune of the sorcerer's captress.1944, Clark Ashton Smith, Lost Worlds, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 261

Forms of captress

pluralcaptresses

Origin of captress

From captor + -ess.

Questions about captress

What does captress mean?
Captress means a female captor.
What part of speech is captress?
Captress is a noun.
What is the plural of captress?
The plural of captress is captresses.

Words near captress in the dictionary

  1. captorhinomorph
  2. captorhinomorphs
  3. captors
  4. captour
  5. captours
  6. captress
  7. captresses
  8. capts
  9. Capts.
  10. capturability
  11. capturable

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