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creatress

creatress noun: a female creator.

Noun

creatress (plural creatresses)

  1. A female creator.
    • Him long she so with shadowes entertained, / As her Creatresse had in charge to her ordained.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of creatress

pluralcreatresses

Origin of creatress

From creator + -ess.

Questions about creatress

What does creatress mean?
Creatress means a female creator.
What part of speech is creatress?
Creatress is a noun.
What is the plural of creatress?
The plural of creatress is creatresses.

Words near creatress in the dictionary

  1. creators
  2. creatorship
  3. creatorships
  4. creatour
  5. creatours
  6. creatress
  7. creatresses
  8. creatrices
  9. creatrix
  10. creatrixes
  11. creats

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