countess
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6.9
- noun
- /ˈkaʊntɪs/
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condesa
- The countess hosted an elegant ball at her mansion for all the nobility.
- Countess of Pembroke
- count and countess
- illustrious countess
All right, let's welcome the icon, the mother, Countess Luanne Diliceps.
- All right, let's welcome the icon, the mother, Countess Luanne Diliceps.
- But there's this one person who is called Countess Luan de Lasseps.
- She's like, OK, girls, I'm the celestial Countess.
- And I'm, I'm actually nothing like the Countess except that I'm, you know, blonde and like makeup and fashion.
Examples
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In Florence, he fell in love with Countess Salvi and wanted to propose to her.
Academic text (2003) -
See, the point is she was a countess, and she gave up everything... her position, her riches, her femininity... to fight as a man for something bigger than herself.
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Well, it turns out, the countess actually loves you.
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Look, I said have the Countess call me tomorrow.
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Now, it is your turn to play us something, Countess.
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" She paid an old countess to step aside for her.
Fiction book (1993) -
If you were a duchess or a countess.
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Or they could go to the Countess of Gloucester, who was married to Prince John.
Fiction book (1999) -
I was just asking the Countess about her admirable wealth.
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And then his daughter-in-law, the Countess of Wessex, who said it was like someone took him by the hand and off he went.
Synonyms
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2.5
A woman who has a noble title in Britain, for example the wife or female partner of a lord
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5.3
A person from a high social family with a title
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9.9
A French noble woman with the same rank as a count
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5.8
A woman from a high social class who has a title
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8.6
A woman who holds the title of countess in Italian or European nobility
A woman from a high social class with a family title
How Noble
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Countess is made from the title count plus the feminine ending -ess, like in actress. Long ago the title count came from the old word comes, which meant 'companion' or 'helper' to a ruler, so a countess is a woman who holds that noble rank or is the wife of a count.