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COUNTESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does countess mean? 

COUNTESS (noun)
  The noun COUNTESS has 1 sense:

1. female equivalent of a count or earlplay

  Familiarity information: COUNTESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COUNTESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Female equivalent of a count or earl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("countess" is a kind of...):

Lady; noblewoman; peeress (a woman of the peerage in Britain)


 Context examples 


A heroine returning, at the close of her career, to her native village, in all the triumph of recovered reputation, and all the dignity of a countess, with a long train of noble relations in their several phaetons, and three waiting-maids in a travelling chaise and four, behind her, is an event on which the pen of the contriver may well delight to dwell; it gives credit to every conclusion, and the author must share in the glory she so liberally bestows.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)



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