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Word Meanings - MARCHIONESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman.

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  • MARQUISDOM
    A marquisate. "Nobles of the marquisdom of Saluce." Holinshed.
  • WIDOW-MAKER
    One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
  • WOMANLY
    Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
  • MARQUISATE
    The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.
  • MARQUIS
    A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred
  • WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
    Womanhood. Chaucer.
  • MARQUISSHIP
    A marquisate.
  • WIDOW-WAIL
    A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
  • WIDOWLY
    Becoming or like a widow.
  • WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
    An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
  • WIDOW BIRD
    See BIRD
  • DIGNITY
    digneté, dignité, F. dignité, fr. L. dignitas, from dignus worthy. 1. The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence. 2. Elevation; grandeur. The dignity of this act was worth the audience
  • WOMANHOOD
    1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2.
  • WOMANIZE
    To make like a woman; to make effeminate. V. Knox.
  • WIDOWER
    A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again. Shak.
  • WIDOW
    1. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle. Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. 2. To deprive of one who
  • WOMANLIKE
    Like a woman; womanly. Womanlike, taking revenge too deep. Tennyson.
  • WOMANLESS
    Without a woman or women.
  • WOMAN
    1. To act the part of a woman in; -- with indefinite it. Daniel. 2. To make effeminate or womanish. Shak. 3. To furnish with, or unite to, a woman. "To have him see me woman'd." Shak.
  • WIDOWERHOOD
    The state of being a widower.
  • AIRWOMAN
    A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
  • ENGLISHWOMAN
    Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
  • UNWOMAN
    To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
  • NOBLEWOMAN
    A female of noble rank; a peeress.
  • BONDSWOMAN
    See BONDWOMAN
  • NEEDLEWOMAN
    A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
  • DAIRYWOMAN
    A woman who attends to a dairy.
  • GENTLEWOMAN
    1. A woman of good family or of good breeding; a woman above the vulgar. Bacon. 2. A woman who attends a lady of high rank. Shak.
  • HERDSWOMAN
    A woman who tends a herd. Sir W. Scott.
  • SALESWOMAN
    A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • CHARWOMAN
    A woman hired for odd work or for single days.
  • TIRE-WOMAN
    1. A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke. 2. A dresser in a theater. Simmonds.

 

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