VISCOUNTESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does viscountess mean? 

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

1. a wife or widow of a viscount

2. a noblewoman holding the rank of viscount in her own right

  Familiarity information: VISCOUNTESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VISCOUNTESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wife or widow of a viscount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A noblewoman holding the rank of viscount in her own right

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

peer (a nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage)

Instance hyponyms:

Astor; Nancy Witcher Astor; Viscountess Astor (British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964))

 Context examples 

The influence of the viscount and viscountess in their brother's behalf was assisted by that right understanding of Mr. Morland's circumstances which, as soon as the general would allow himself to be informed, they were qualified to give.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)