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gladiatrices

gladiatrices is the plural of gladiatrix.

Meaning of gladiatrix

Noun

gladiatrix (plural gladiatrixes or gladiatrices)

  1. (rare) gladiator (female)
    • While most gladiatrices fought privately, enough fought publicly so that finally combats were "forbidden in which women fought in companies with each other, or women with dwarfs" (de Beaumont, 1929: 54).1976, Elise Boulding, The underside of history: a view of women through time
    Synonyms:
    gladiatress

Questions about gladiatrices

What is gladiatrices the plural of?
Gladiatrices is the plural of gladiatrix.

Words near gladiatrices in the dictionary

  1. gladiatory
  2. gladiatour
  3. gladiatours
  4. gladiatress
  5. gladiatresses
  6. gladiatrices
  7. gladiatrix
  8. gladiatrixes
  9. gladiature
  10. gladiatures
  11. Gladieux

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