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directress

directress noun: a female director.

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

directress meaning in Tamil

directress in Tamil

பெண் இயக்குநர்

Synonyms of directress

Forms of directress

pluraldirectresses

Origin of directress

From director + -ess.

Questions about directress

What does directress mean?
Directress means a female director.
What is directress in Tamil?
Directress in Tamil is பெண் இயக்குநர். See Directress meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is directress?
Directress is a noun.
What is the plural of directress?
The plural of directress is directresses.

Words near directress in the dictionary

  1. directory traversal
  2. directory traversals
  3. directoryless
  4. directour
  5. directours
  6. directress
  7. directresses
  8. directrice
  9. directrices
  10. directrix
  11. directrixes

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