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comfortress

comfortress noun: a woman who comforts.

Noun

comfortress (plural comfortresses)

  1. (rare) A woman who comforts.
    • To be your comfortress, and to preserve you1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page)

Forms of comfortress

pluralcomfortresses

Origin of comfortress

From comforter + -ess.

Questions about comfortress

What does comfortress mean?
Comfortress means a woman who comforts.
What part of speech is comfortress?
Comfortress is a noun.
What is the plural of comfortress?
The plural of comfortress is comfortresses.

Words near comfortress in the dictionary

  1. comfortless
  2. comfortlessly
  3. comfortlessness
  4. comfortment
  5. comfortments
  6. comfortress
  7. comfortresses
  8. comfortroot
  9. comfortroots
  10. comforts
  11. comfortsome

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