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directoress

directoress is the alternative form of directress.

Meaning of directress

Noun

directress (plural directresses)

  1. (dated) A female director.
    • And now a maiden […] ſupplied them, next, / With a reſplendent table, which the chaſte / Directreſs of the ſtores furniſh'd with bread / And dainties, remnants of the laſt regale.1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book I.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 9...
    Synonyms:
    directrix

Forms of directoress

pluraldirectoresses

Questions about directoress

What is directoress the alternative form of?
Directoress is the alternative form of directress.

Words near directoress in the dictionary

  1. director-generals
  2. directoral
  3. directorate
  4. directorates
  5. directores musices
  6. directoress
  7. directoresses
  8. directoria
  9. directorial
  10. directorially
  11. directories

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Adapted from Wiktionary: directoress (page history and authors); directress (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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