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commandress

commandress is the alternative form of commanderess.

Meaning of commanderess

Noun

commanderess (plural commanderesses)

  1. (rare) A female commander.
    • Her political hucksters and Power Pointers are trying to help the New York senator blur the line between “male” and “female” enough to become the first commanderess in chief.2007 October 21, Maureen Dowd, “Cougars, Archers, Snipers”, in New York Times

Forms of commandress

pluralcommandresses

Origin of commandress

From commander + -ess.

Questions about commandress

What is commandress the alternative form of?
Commandress is the alternative form of commanderess.

Words near commandress in the dictionary

  1. commandoes
  2. commandolike
  3. commandoman
  4. commandomen
  5. commandos
  6. commandress
  7. commandresses
  8. commandries
  9. commandry
  10. commands
  11. commandwide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commandress (page history and authors); commanderess (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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