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pastress

pastress is the rare form of pastoress.

Meaning of pastoress

Noun

pastoress (plural pastoresses)

  1. (dated) A female pastor (person who tends to a flock).
    • The first Mrs. Kirke was, I judge, a sedate pastoress, who looked well after her household and her husband's flock.1868, William Conant Church, The Galaxy, Volume 5
    Synonyms:
    pastrix, shepherdess
  2. (dated) A female pastor (minister or priest of a Christian church).
    Synonyms:
    pastrix

Forms of pastress

pluralpastresses

Origin of pastress

From pastor + -ess.

Questions about pastress

What is pastress the rare form of?
Pastress is the rare form of pastoress.

Words near pastress in the dictionary

  1. Pastrana
  2. Pastranas
  3. Pastrano
  4. Pastranos
  5. Pastrans
  6. pastress
  7. pastresses
  8. pastries
  9. pastrix
  10. Pastrnak
  11. pastromi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pastress (page history and authors); pastoress (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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