CONDUCTRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conductress mean? 

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

1. a woman conductor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDUCTRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman conductor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

conductor (the person who collects fares on a public conveyance)

 Context examples 

As a conductress of Indian schools, and a helper amongst Indian women, your assistance will be to me invaluable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I said something to the effect that it was a lady whom I had seen before, in a few words, to my conductress; and had scarcely done so, when we heard her voice in the room, though not, from where we stood, what she was saying.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)