noun
Meaning 1
A female mayor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
mayoress
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Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /meɪɚˈɛs/
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UK: /mɛəˈɹɛs/
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UK: /meɪəˈɹɛs/
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rhymes with -ɛs
noun
Meaning 2
The wife of a (male) mayor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
A daughter or female friend of a male mayor chosen by him to hold the title mayoress.
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noun
Meaning 4
a woman mayor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mayor, city manager
noun
Meaning 5
the wife of a mayor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: wife, married woman
History
Etymology
From Middle English meyresse, mayresse, mairasse; equivalent to mayor + -ess.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: alcaldesa — female mayor
- Bulgarian: кмети́ца (kmetíca) — female mayor
- Bulgarian: градонача́лничка (gradonačálnička) — female mayor
- Bulgarian: градонача́лница (gradonačálnica) — female mayor
- Czech: starostka — female mayor
- Dutch: burgemeesteres — female mayor
- Esperanto: urbestrino — female mayor
- French: mairesse — female mayor
- German: Bürgermeisterin — female mayor
- Greek: δήμαρχος (dímarchos) — female mayor
- Greek: δημαρχίνα (dimarchína) — female mayor
- Italian: sindaca — female mayor
- Latvian: mēre — female mayor
- Lithuanian: merė — female mayor
- Macedonian: градонача́лничка (gradonačálnička) — female mayor
- Polish: burmistrzyni — female mayor
- Portuguese: prefeita — female mayor
- Romanian: primăriță — female mayor
- Romanian: primăreasă — female mayor
- Russian: градонача́льница (gradonačálʹnica) — female mayor
- Serbo-Croatian: градона́челница — female mayor
- Serbo-Croatian: gradonáčelnica — female mayor
- Slovak: starostka — female mayor
- Spanish: alcaldesa — female mayor
- French: mairesse — mayor's wife
- Italian: podestaressa — mayor's wife