DUENNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does duenna mean? 

• DUENNA (noun)
  The noun DUENNA has 1 sense:

1. a woman chaperon

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DUENNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman chaperon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

chaperon; chaperone (one who accompanies and supervises a young woman or gatherings of young people)

Domain region:

Portugal; Portuguese Republic (a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil))

Espana; Kingdom of Spain; Spain (a parliamentary monarchy in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; a former colonial power)

 Context examples 

No want of understrappers: my sister desires her love, and hopes to be admitted into the company, and will be happy to take the part of any old duenna or tame confidante, that you may not like to do yourselves.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)