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wardress

Syllables: ward·ressUK/ˈwɔːdɹɪs/US/ˈwɔɹdɹɪs/

wardress noun: a female warder.

Noun

wardress (plural wardresses)

  1. A female warder.
    • The door opened and the wardress came in.1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 369
    • She is not beaming at all. Her mouth is set like the wardress of Belsen wishing to boil Joyous’s chubby cheeks into candle wax.2008, Denis Beckett, “Explaining prawns”, in Magenta, Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press; Johannesburg: Saga Press, →ISBN, page 83

wardress meaning in Bengali and Malayalam

wardress in Bengali

একজন মহিলা ওয়ার্ডর

wardress in Malayalam

ജയിലുദ്യോഗസ്ഥ, മേൽനോട്ടക്കാരി, കാവൽക്കാരി

Forms of wardress

pluralwardresses

Origin of wardress

From warder + -ess.

Questions about wardress

What does wardress mean?
Wardress means a female warder.
What is wardress in Bengali?
Wardress in Bengali is একজন মহিলা ওয়ার্ডর. See Wardress meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is wardress?
Wardress is a noun.
How do you pronounce wardress?
Wardress is pronounced /ˈwɔːdɹɪs/ (UK).
What is the plural of wardress?
The plural of wardress is wardresses.

Words near wardress in the dictionary

  1. wardoms
  2. Wardon
  3. Wardons
  4. Wardour
  5. Wardour Street English
  6. wardress
  7. wardresses
  8. Wardrip
  9. Wardrips
  10. wardrive
  11. wardriven

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wardress (page history and authors); wardress (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wardress (Malayalam 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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