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laundress

laundress noun: synonym of washerwoman.

Noun

laundress (plural laundresses)

  1. Synonym of washerwoman.
    • I tell thee ſhameleſſe girle,
      Thou ſhalt be Landreſſe to my waiting maide:c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    washerwoman

Verb

laundress (third-person singular simple present laundresses, present participle laundressing, simple past and past participle laundressed)

  1. (historical, obsolete) To act as a laundress.
    • ‘Sir,’ said Mrs. Crupp, in a tone approaching to severity, ‘I’ve laundressed other young gentlemen besides yourself. […]’1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 26, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
    • And oh, my dears, real washing is very different work from the dolls’ laundressing—standing round a wash-hand basin placed on a nursery chair, and wasting ever so much beautiful honey-soap in nice clean hot water […]1875, Mary Louisa Molesworth, “Too Bad”, in Tell Me a Story, 5th edition, London: Macmillan, published 1882, page 169

laundress meaning in Urdu

laundress in Urdu

دھوبن

Synonyms of laundress

Forms of laundress

Noun
plurallaundresses
Verb
third-person singular presentlaundresses
present participlelaundressing
past participlelaundressed
pastlaundressed

Origin of laundress

From launderer + ess.

Words formed from laundress

Questions about laundress

What does laundress mean?
Laundress means synonym of washerwoman.
What is laundress in Urdu?
Laundress in Urdu is دھوبن. See Laundress meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is laundress?
Laundress can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of laundress?
The plural of laundress is laundresses.

Words near laundress in the dictionary

  1. laundering
  2. launderings
  3. launderometer
  4. launderometers
  5. launders
  6. laundress
  7. laundressed
  8. laundresses
  9. laundressing
  10. laundrette
  11. laundrettes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laundress (page history and authors); laundress (Urdu 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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