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victoress

victoress noun: a female victor.

Noun

victoress (plural victoresses)

  1. (obsolete) A female victor.
    • But when the victoreſſe arriued there, / Where late ſhe left the penſife Scudamore, / With her owne truſty Squire, both full of feare, / Neither of them ſhe found where ſhe them lore:[…].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part I (books I–III), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 44, page 588
    • And at the field fought before Bebriacum, ere the battailes joyned, tvvo Ægles had a conflict and bickered together in all their fights: and vvhen the one of them was foyled and overcome, a third came at the very inſtant from the ſunne riſing and chaſed the Victreſſe avvay.1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Flavius Vespatianus Augustus”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […]...

Synonyms of victoress

Forms of victoress

pluralvictoresses
alternative formvictress

Origin of victoress

From victor + -ess.

Questions about victoress

What does victoress mean?
Victoress means a female victor.
What part of speech is victoress?
Victoress is a noun.
What is the plural of victoress?
The plural of victoress is victoresses.

Words near victoress in the dictionary

  1. victor fish
  2. victor ludorum
  3. Victor Vlad Delamarina
  4. victor's justice
  5. Victorello
  6. victoress
  7. victoresses
  8. victorfish
  9. victoria
  10. Victoria blue
  11. Victoria blues

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