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huntresses

huntresses is the plural 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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Proper noun capitalized: Huntresses

Huntresses

  1. (plural) plural of Huntress

Questions about huntresses

What is huntresses the plural of?
Huntresses is the plural of huntress.
What part of speech is huntresses?
Huntresses is a proper noun.

Words near huntresses in the dictionary

  1. Hunton Bridge
  2. Huntons
  3. Huntoon
  4. Huntoons
  5. huntress
  6. huntresses
  7. hunts
  8. hunts and pecks
  9. hunts down
  10. Hunts Grove
  11. hunts out

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