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communicatrix

communicatrix noun: a female communicator.

Noun

communicatrix (plural communicatrices or communicatrixes)

  1. (rare) A female communicator.
    • And he began to say, “Come bowels of perfection; come communicatrix of the masculine; come, thou that knowest the mysteries of the elect: come,” &c. &c. (see page 162).1850, J. A. Wickham, “Apocryphal and uncanonical gospels, &c.”, in A Synopsis of the Doctrine of Baptism, Regeneration, Conversion, &c. and Kindred Subjects, by the Fathers and Other Writers from the...
    • I see now that, hobbled by hobby, I’ve presented my wife as a very intricately programmed phatic communicatrix (or whatever the sociological jargon is).1970, Anthony Burgess, “The Private Dialect of Husbands and Wives”, in Alexander Scharbach, Ralph H. Singleton, editors, The New Lively Rhetoric: Readings, Analyses, Arguments, Holt, Rinehart and...

Examples of communicatrix in a sentence

  • Other bees smell the communicatrix, or receive small draughts of scented liquid from her, and then search for food sources with the appropriate scent.1971, J. B. S. Haldane, “Animal Ritual and Human Language”, in The Cosmos Reader, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, page 139:
  • Attractive, prof. d/w/m, owner of 5 garlic presses, seeks adventurous 40+ communicatrix, over 5'3'", a smart, lithesome woman.1992 May 31, “Classified”, in Sunday Province, Vancouver, B.C., page D4, column 3:
  • ‘Thing is,’ said Isaac thoughtfully, ‘it can’t just be the strength of the signal that attracts them, or it would only ever be the seers and communicatrixes and so on that got taken.[…]’2000, China Miéville, Perdido Street Station, Pan Books, →ISBN, page 608:
  • Colleen Wainwright, aka “the communicatrix” and a designer who blogs, says, “Blogs are conversations, not ads.[…]”2008, Ilise Benun, Peleg Top, “Which Marketing Tools Should I Use?”, in The Designer’s Guide to Marketing and Pricing: How to Win Clients...

Forms of communicatrix

pluralcommunicatrices
pluralcommunicatrixes

Origin of communicatrix

Learned borrowing from Latin commūnicātrīx. By surface analysis, communicate + -trix.

Questions about communicatrix

What does communicatrix mean?
Communicatrix means a female communicator.
How do you use communicatrix in a sentence?
Other bees smell the communicatrix, or receive small draughts of scented liquid from her, and then search for food sources with the appropriate scent.
What part of speech is communicatrix?
Communicatrix is a noun.
What is the plural of communicatrix?
The plural of communicatrix is communicatrices.

Words near communicatrix in the dictionary

  1. communicativeness
  2. communicator
  3. communicators
  4. communicatory
  5. communicatrices
  6. communicatrix
  7. communicatrixes
  8. communicology
  9. communilect
  10. communilects
  11. communing

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