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hunteress

hunteress is the obsolete form of huntress.

Meaning of huntress

Noun

huntress (plural huntresses)

  1. (literary) A female hunter.
    • In those same woods ye well remember may / How that a noble hunteress did wonne [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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Origin of hunteress

From hunter + -ess.

Questions about hunteress

What is hunteress the obsolete form of?
Hunteress is the obsolete form of huntress.

Words near hunteress in the dictionary

  1. hunter-gathers
  2. hunter-killer
  3. hunter-killers
  4. Hunter-Russell syndrome
  5. Hunterdon County
  6. hunteress
  7. Hunterian
  8. hunterlike
  9. hunters
  10. Hunters Hill
  11. Hunterston

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