Word.ws English Dictionary

newsreaderess

newsreaderess noun: a female newsreader.

Noun

newsreaderess (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural, rare) A female newsreader.
    • In the space of about 3 minutes on one of those news-all-night shows -- I think it was the one on ABC -- they showed the head-meets-diving board clip 5 times. Once as the lead-in when they came back from commercials. Then as the perky newsreaderess read the news perkily. Then as she went to a...1995 February 24, Arne Adolfsen, “Re: NBC airs Louganis story - poorly”, in soc.motss (Usenet), message-ID <3ilhue$73j@mizar.usc.edu>
    • One has just raised oneself from one's steamy pit, on being informed by the newsreaderess that it was 7.08am . / Imagine my surprise when I looked at all the clocks in my mansion, to find that the time was *8.07am* - an hour later.1999 January 10, Stephen Bennetts, “Correct Time”, in uk.media.radio.bbc-r4 (Usenet), message-ID <u4k0dOAbcGm2Ew3D@weenieb.demon.co.uk>
    Synonyms:
    newscastress

Examples of newsreaderess in a sentence

  • Then as the perky newsreaderess read the news perkily.1995 February 24, Arne Adolfsen, “Re: NBC airs Louganis story - poorly”, in soc.motss (Usenet), message-ID <3ilhue$73j@mizar.usc.edu>:
  • HOT! / I am referring, of course, to newsreaderess Sandra Sully.2009, Glenn Fowler, Christopher Smyth, Gareth Malone, Dear Editor...: The Collected Letters of Oscar Brittle, University of New South Wales...

Synonyms of newsreaderess

Origin of newsreaderess

From newsreader + -ess.

Questions about newsreaderess

What does newsreaderess mean?
Newsreaderess means a female newsreader.
How do you use newsreaderess in a sentence?
Then as the perky newsreaderess read the news perkily.
What part of speech is newsreaderess?
Newsreaderess is a noun.

Words near newsreaderess in the dictionary

  1. newsposts
  2. newsprint
  3. newsprints
  4. NewSQL
  5. newsreader
  6. newsreaderess
  7. newsreaders
  8. newsreading
  9. newsreel
  10. newsreelman
  11. newsreelmen

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: newsreaderess (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “newsreaderess.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/newsreaderess. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.