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professoresses

professoresses is the plural of professoress.

Meaning of professoress

Noun

professoress (plural professoresses)

  1. (archaic) A female professor.
    • At the end of the first cantos, fresh from the description of the female college, with its professoresses, and hostleresses, and other Utopian monsters1850 September, Charles Kingsley, “Tennyson”, in Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time, with Other Papers, author’s edition, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1859, →OCLC, page 187

Questions about professoresses

What is professoresses the plural of?
Professoresses is the plural of professoress.

Words near professoresses in the dictionary

  1. professorate
  2. professorates
  3. professordom
  4. professores ordinarii
  5. professoress
  6. professoresses
  7. professorial
  8. professorialism
  9. professoriality
  10. professorially
  11. professoriat

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