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countesses

countesses is the genitive of countesse.

countesses is the plural of countess.

countesses is the plural of countesse.

Meaning of countess

Noun

countess (plural countesses)

  1. The wife of a count or earl.
  2. A woman holding the rank of count or earl in her own right; a female holder of an earldom.
    • Elizabeth Millicent Leveson-Gower is 24th Countess of Sutherland; her son will be the 25th Earl.
    Synonyms:
    earless

Noun capitalized: Countesses

Countesses

  1. (plural) plural of Countess

Questions about countesses

What is countesses the genitive of?
Countesses is the genitive of countesse.
What part of speech is countesses?
Countesses is a noun.

Words near countesses in the dictionary

  1. counterworlds
  2. countes
  3. countess
  4. Countess Wear
  5. countesse
  6. countesses
  7. countessly
  8. countest
  9. Countesthorpe
  10. counteth
  11. Counthorpe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: countesses (page history and authors); Countesses (page history and authors); countess (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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