noun
Meaning 1
A female lion (animal).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: queen of beasts
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lioness
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Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A female lion (famous person regarded with interest and curiosity).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A female visitor to a student at Oxford, especially during commemoration week.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Qualifier: Oxford University slang
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A player for England women's national football team
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
a female lion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: lion, king of beasts, Panthera leo
History
Etymology
From Middle English leonesse, lyonesse, from Old French leonesse, lionesse; equivalent to lion + -ess.
Across languages
Translations
102 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: leeuin — female lion
- Albanian: luaneshë — female lion
- Arabic: لَبُؤَة (labuʔa) — female lion
- Arabic: لَبْوَة (labwa) — female lion
- Arabic: اسدة (asada) — female lion
- Aramaic: ܐܪܝܘܬܐ (ʾaryōṯā) — female lion
- Aramaic: אריותא (ʾaryōṯā) — female lion
- Armenian: էգ առյուծ (ēg aṙyuc) — female lion
- Asturian: lleona — female lion
- Belarusian: ільві́ца (ilʹvíca) — female lion
- Belarusian: льві́ца (lʹvíca) — female lion
- Bengali: সিংহী (śiṅhi) — female lion
- Bulgarian: лъви́ца (lǎvíca) — female lion
- Burmese: ခြင်္သေ့မ (hkrangse.ma.) — female lion
- Catalan: lleona — female lion
- Chinese Mandarin: 母狮 (mǔshī) — female lion
- Chinese Mandarin: 母狮子 (mǔshīzi) — female lion
- Coptic: ⲗⲁⲃⲟⲓ (laboi) — female lion
- Corsican: lionessa — female lion
- Czech: lvice — female lion
- Danish: hunløve — female lion
- Danish: løvinde — female lion
- Dutch: leeuwin — female lion
- Egyptian: U2:D4-t:E22 (mꜣt) — female lion
- Esperanto: leonino — female lion
- Finnish: naarasleijona — female lion
- French: lionne — female lion
- West-Frisian: liuwinne — female lion
- Galician: leoa — female lion
- German: Löwin — female lion
- Greek: λιονταρίνα (liontarína) — female lion
- Greek: λέαινα (léaina) — female lion
- Ancient Greek: λέαινᾰ (léaină) — female lion
- Gujarati: સિંહિયો (sĩhiyo) — female lion
- Hebrew: לביאה (l'vi'á) — female lion
- Hindi: सिंहनी (sĩhnī) — female lion
- Hindi: शेरनी (śernī) — female lion
- Hungarian: oroszlánhölgy — female lion
- Hungarian: nőstény oroszlán — female lion
- Hungarian: nőstényoroszlán — female lion
- Hunsrik: Leevin — female lion
- Icelandic: ljónynja — female lion
- Ido: leonino — female lion
- Indonesian: singa betina — female lion
- Interlingua: leonessa — female lion
- Isoko: ajalakpo — female lion
- Italian: leonessa — female lion
- Japanese: 雌ライオン (mesu-raion) — female lion
- Japanese: 母獅 (mushi) — female lion
- Kannada: ಸಿಂಹಿಣಿ (siṃhiṇi) — female lion
- Kazakh: қаншыр (qanşyr) — female lion
- Korean: 암사자 (amsaja) — female lion
- Kyrgyz: ургаачы арстан (urgaacı arstan) — female lion
- Latin: lea — female lion
- Latin: leaena — female lion
- Latvian: lauvene — female lion
- Lithuanian: liūtė — female lion
- Luxembourgish: Léiwin — female lion
- Macedonian: лавица (lavica) — female lion
- Malay: singa betina — female lion
- Maltese: leoness — female lion
- Marathi: सिंहीण (siuhīṇ) — female lion
- Mongolian: эрслэн (erslen) — female lion
- Mongolian: ᠡᠷᠰᠯᠡᠨ (erslen) — female lion
- Neapolitan: lionessa — female lion
- Nepali: सिंहनी (siṅhanī) — female lion
- Norwegian Bokmål: løvinne — female lion
- Norwegian Nynorsk: løvinne — female lion
- Pashto: زمرۍ (zmarëi) — female lion
- Polish: lwica — female lion
- Portuguese: leoa — female lion
- Punjabi: ਸ਼ੇਰਨੀ (śernī) — female lion
- Punjabi: شیرنِی (śernī) — female lion
- Romanian: leoaică — female lion
- Russian: льви́ца (lʹvíca) — female lion
- Sanskrit: सिंहा (siṃhā) — female lion
- Saraiki: شِینہݨِی (śīnhṇī) — female lion
- Scottish Gaelic: ban-leòmhann — female lion
- Serbo-Croatian: лавица — female lion
- Serbo-Croatian: lavica — female lion
- Shona: shumba hadzi — female lion
- Sicilian: liuna — female lion
- Slovak: levica — female lion
- Slovene: levinja — female lion
- Lower Sorbian: lawica — female lion
- Lower Sorbian: lawowka — female lion
- Upper Sorbian: lawica — female lion
- Spanish: leona — female lion
- Sundanese: singa bikang — female lion
- Swahili: simba jike — female lion
- Swedish: lejoninna — female lion
- Swedish: lejonhona — female lion
- Tamil: பெண்சிங்கம் (peṇciṅkam) — female lion
- Telugu: సివంగి (sivaṅgi) — female lion
- Turkish: dişi aslan — female lion
- Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎁𐎛𐎚 (lbỉt) — female lion
- Ukrainian: леви́ця (levýcja) — female lion
- Urdu: شیرنی (śernī) — female lion
- Vietnamese: sư tử cái — female lion
- Volapük: jilein — female lion
- Yiddish: לייביכע (leybikhe) — female lion
- Norwegian Bokmål: løvinne — famous person
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