Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A female lion.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The female of the lion.
- noun A woman who is an object of public interest and curiosity; rarely, a boldly conspicuous woman. See
lion , 6.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A female lion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a female
lion .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female lion
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now a lioness is as good at stealth as she is at killing, but of course there would still be those bullets to contend with.
A Principle Ulysses 2009
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Getting ready, said Anne ONeil, whose hair brought to mind the word lioness.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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Getting ready, said Anne ONeil, whose hair brought to mind the word lioness.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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Getting ready, said Anne ONeil, whose hair brought to mind the word lioness.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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Getting ready, said Anne ONeil, whose hair brought to mind the word lioness.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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Getting ready, said Anne ONeil, whose hair brought to mind the word lioness.
Roadside Crosses Jeffery Deaver 2009
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The fact that a pregnant lioness is seperated from the pride prior to birth so that the male won't kill/eat her young has got to relieve "some" stress, ya think?
Goodbye to Tatiana 2008
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One guy got a yin-yang on his ankle, one girl got a frackin 'lioness head on her shoulder blade (her.entire. shoulderblade.), and one guy got a Molson Canadian Maple Leaf on his shoulder.
Piercing Insight kittenpie 2008
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Saïd Business School , which is due to open in the autumn, and has indicated that he wants to name it after Baroness Thatcher, who he described as a "lioness".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Julie Henry 2012
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Erratic and vagrant instincts tormented me, and these I was obliged to control or rather suppress for fear of growing in any degree enthusiastic, and thus drawing attention to the 'lioness' -- the authoress.
Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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