tress
/tɹɛs/
tress noun: a braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
Noun
tress (plural tresses)
- A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
- nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.1910, Theodore C. Williams, The Aeneid, translation of Aeneis by Virgil, Book IV Chapter 28
- “Mercy! If I had a husband whose business it was to look at women's beautiful eyes, peachy cheeks, and luxurious tresses, I should go crazy! […]”1914, Eleanor H. Porter, Miss Billy Married
- A long lock of hair.
- A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
Verb
tress (third-person singular simple present tresses, present participle tressing, simple past and past participle tressed)
Proper noun capitalized: Tress
Tress (plural Tresses)
- A surname.
tress meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
tress in Urdu
- A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet
- زُلْف zulf
tress in Malayalam
- തലമുടിച്ചുരുൾ, ചുരുണ്ടമുടി, മുടിക്കെട്ട്
tress in Kannada
- ಉದುರಿ
tress in Arabic
- A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet
- خُصْلَة ḵuṣla, ضَفِيرَة ḍafīra
More languagesFewer languages
- tress in Persian
- گیسو gisu, زلف zolf
Forms of tress
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | tresses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | tresses |
| present participle | tressing |
| past participle | tressed |
| past | tressed |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Tresses |
Origin of tress
From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia.
Two main origins: * An English surname of unexplained origin. * A surname borrowed from German Tress.
Words formed from tress
Words that rhyme with tress
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- SMS
- success
- compress
- largesse
- ness
- profess
- confess
- distress
- regress
- depress
- excess
- guess
- prepossess
- undress
- CBS
- ingress
- oppress
- redress
- transgress
- assess
- cess
- duress
- fess
- fluoresce
- Hesse
- less
- mayoress
- obsess
- unless
- yes
- accresce
- acquiesce
- aggress
- BESS
- caress
- clothes press
- congress
- defervesce
- digress
- ess
- foulness
- Hess
- intumesce
- jess
- lazy S
- liquesce
- repress
- second-guess
Questions about tress
- What does tress mean?
- Tress means a braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
- What is tress in Urdu?
- Tress in Urdu is زُلْف (zulf). See Tress meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is tress?
- Tress can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce tress?
- Tress is pronounced /tɹɛs/.
- What is the plural of tress?
- The plural of tress is tresses.
Words near tress in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tress (page history and authors); Tress (page history and authors); tress (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tress (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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