Mayoress
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A female mayor.
"The blonde mayoress was apparently a member of the MPLA and there were indications that spies in the town were sending radio messages to the enemy. Life was monotonous and the troops took to fishing to supplement their rations."
- 2 a woman mayor wordnet
- 3 The wife of a (male) mayor.
"To a Lady Majoress. WHen I behold your head and limbs all shaking Much like a Custard newly come from baking, Your Velvet hood on tipto rais’d upright As if your Hinch boy challenge would to fight. Your pretty mouth, like Oyster gaping wide, As if it did expect ere long the tyde; Your Chin like Aple, both so red and shrivel’d, So scalded by a hot rhume hourly drivel’d."
- 4 the wife of a mayor wordnet
- 5 A daughter or female friend of a male mayor chosen by him to hold the title mayoress.
Antonyms
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More examples"The blonde mayoress was apparently a member of the MPLA and there were indications that spies in the town were sending radio messages to the enemy. Life was monotonous and the troops took to fishing to supplement their rations."
Etymology
From Middle English meyresse, mayresse, mairasse; equivalent to mayor + -ess.
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