Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A female monarch; a queen or empress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A female monarch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
female monarch .
Etymologies
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monarch + -ess
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Examples
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(Hakewell); ‘commandress’ (Burton); ‘monarchess’, ‘discipless’ (Speed);
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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(I'd add that I think Camilla would make a far more British monarchess than Di.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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