VIRAGO (viragoes)

Pronunciation (US):

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: viragoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does virago mean? 

• VIRAGO (noun)
  The noun VIRAGO has 2 senses:

1. a noisy or scolding or domineering woman

2. a large strong and aggressive woman

  Familiarity information: VIRAGO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIRAGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A noisy or scolding or domineering woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

shrew; termagant (a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large strong and aggressive woman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

amazon; virago

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

adult female; woman (an adult female person (as opposed to a man))

 Context examples 

He paid two dollars and a half a month rent for the small room he got from his Portuguese landlady, Maria Silva, a virago and a widow, hard working and harsher tempered, rearing her large brood of children somehow, and drowning her sorrow and fatigue at irregular intervals in a gallon of the thin, sour wine that she bought from the corner grocery and saloon for fifteen cents.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)