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coastguardswoman

coastguardswoman noun: a female coastguardsman.

Noun

coastguardswoman (plural coastguardswomen)

  1. A female coastguardsman.
    • The coastguardsman was a coastguardswoman. Or maybe I should say coastguardsperson.[…]Reevaluated from the perspective that she was a coastguardswoman, C. L. McCloud could be rated cute, even pretty, possibly beautiful, but that would be going too far before I had more data.[…]I said something...1998, Andrew M. Greeley, The Bishop and the Three Kings, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, pages 15–18
    • Last year, the police say, a coastguardswoman, despondent over the death of her mother, was persuaded by a gypsy fortuneteller to turn over thousands of dollars of a “cursed” inheritance.1988 May 16, Sam Roberts, “Metro Matters; Astrology Quiz: Will the Reagans Hurt Business?”, in The New York Times, section B, page 1, column 1

Forms of coastguardswoman

pluralcoastguardswomen

Origin of coastguardswoman

From coastguard + -s- + -woman.

Questions about coastguardswoman

What does coastguardswoman mean?
Coastguardswoman means a female coastguardsman.
What part of speech is coastguardswoman?
Coastguardswoman is a noun.
What is the plural of coastguardswoman?
The plural of coastguardswoman is coastguardswomen.

Words near coastguardswoman in the dictionary

  1. coastguardman
  2. coastguardmen
  3. coastguards
  4. coastguardsman
  5. coastguardsmen
  6. coastguardswoman
  7. coastguardswomen
  8. coastie
  9. coasties
  10. coasties week
  11. coasting

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