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pioneeress

pioneeress noun: a female pioneer.

Noun

pioneeress (plural pioneeresses)

  1. A female pioneer.
    • A very industrious(? pioneeress dug and sold six dollars worth of gold dust, but whether she was six days or as many weeks at it, I have not been informed;1855 March 1, Joe Furry, “Editorial Correspondence”, in The Plymouth Banner, volume 4, number 5 (whole 161), Plymouth, Ind., published 19 April 1855
    • Her calling is very multifarious—one day, she goes out to nurse; another, to clean; on a third, she is engaged to wash; at one time, she has a house to let; at another, she is the pioneeress who clears the way, and makes all ready for the new incoming-tenant;1855 July 14, “Our Old Betty”, in Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature Science and Arts, volume IV, number 80, London: W. and R. Chambers, page 17

Examples of pioneeress in a sentence

  • I look upon the ship as a second Mayflower, and regard these women as pioneeresses.1865 November 2, “From New York. A Ship-load of Wives for Washington Territory—Mr. Mereer and the Ship Continental—Letter from an Ohio...
  • And to think, when you saw her mule-faced portrait in this book, that you figured her for just another dull and wagon-weary pioneeress.1998 November 1, Toni Stroud, “The Resourceful Traveler”, in Chicago Tribune, 152nd year, number 305, section 8, page 24:
  • Seems she’s been at Cannes, trying to round up backers for her new project, Inferno, a biopic of porn pioneeress Linda Lovelace.2010 May 20, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 181st year, number 354, page C2:

Forms of pioneeress

pluralpioneeresses

Origin of pioneeress

From pioneer + -ess.

Questions about pioneeress

What does pioneeress mean?
Pioneeress means a female pioneer.
How do you use pioneeress in a sentence?
I look upon the ship as a second Mayflower, and regard these women as pioneeresses.
What part of speech is pioneeress?
Pioneeress is a noun.
What is the plural of pioneeress?
The plural of pioneeress is pioneeresses.

Words near pioneeress in the dictionary

  1. pioneer species
  2. pioneer sword
  3. pioneer swords
  4. pioneerdom
  5. pioneered
  6. pioneeress
  7. pioneeresses
  8. pioneering
  9. pioneeringly
  10. pioneers
  11. Pioneers' Day

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