Word.ws English Dictionary

popess

popess noun: a female pope.

Noun (1)

popess (plural popesses)

  1. A female pope.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:popess.
    Synonyms:
    papess, papissa
  2. A high priestess.

Noun (2) capitalized: Popess

Popess (plural Popesses)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of popess.

Synonyms of popess

Forms of popess

pluralpopesses
pluralPopesses

Origin of popess

From pope + -ess.

Questions about popess

What does popess mean?
Popess means a female pope.
What part of speech is popess?
Popess is a noun.
What is the plural of popess?
The plural of popess is popesses.

Words near popess in the dictionary

  1. popes' noses
  2. Popescu
  3. Popescus
  4. popeship
  5. popeships
  6. popess
  7. popesses
  8. popeye
  9. popeye blacksmelt
  10. popeye blacksmelts
  11. popeyed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: popess (page history and authors); Popess (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: “popess.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/popess. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.