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editoress

editoress is the alternative form of editress.

Meaning of editress

Noun

editress (plural editresses)

  1. (dated) A female editor.
    • This must be Arduina, her sister-in-law, editress of a Woman's Rights paper, who had written her two or three extraordinary letters.1905, Grazia Deledda, chapter 1, in Helen Hester Colvill, transl., Nostalgia, page 8
    Synonyms:
    editrix

Forms of editoress

pluraleditoresses

Questions about editoress

What is editoress the alternative form of?
Editoress is the alternative form of editress.

Words near editoress in the dictionary

  1. editor
  2. editor in chief
  3. editor-at-large
  4. editor-in-chief
  5. editor-in-chiefship
  6. editoress
  7. editoresses
  8. editorial
  9. editorial cartoon
  10. editorial cartoonist
  11. editorial cartoonists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: editoress (page history and authors); editress (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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