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COUNTESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does countess mean?
• COUNTESS (noun)
The noun COUNTESS has 1 sense:
1. female equivalent of a count or earl
Familiarity information: COUNTESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Female equivalent of a count or earl
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("countess" is a kind of...):
Lady; noblewoman; peeress (a woman of the peerage in Britain)
Context examples
A heroine returning, at the close of her career, to her native village, in all the triumph of recovered reputation, and all the dignity of a countess, with a long train of noble relations in their several phaetons, and three waiting-maids in a travelling chaise and four, behind her, is an event on which the pen of the contriver may well delight to dwell; it gives credit to every conclusion, and the author must share in the glory she so liberally bestows.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
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