Newsreaderess

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A female newsreader. no-plural, rare

    "In the space of about 3 minutes on one of those news-all-night shows -- I think it was the one on ABC -- they showed the head-meets-diving board clip 5 times. Once as the lead-in when they came back from commercials. Then as the perky newsreaderess read the news perkily. Then as she went to a reporter at another location. Then *he* ran the clip. Twice. That's totally unjustified."

Synonyms

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newscastress

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"In the space of about 3 minutes on one of those news-all-night shows -- I think it was the one on ABC -- they showed the head-meets-diving board clip 5 times. Once as the lead-in when they came back from commercials. Then as the perky newsreaderess read the news perkily. Then as she went to a reporter at another location. Then *he* ran the clip. Twice. That's totally unjustified."

Etymology

From newsreader + -ess.

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