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MAYORESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mayoress mean?
• MAYORESS (noun)
The noun MAYORESS has 2 senses:
1. the wife of a mayor
2. a woman mayor
Familiarity information: MAYORESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The wife of a mayor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("mayoress" is a kind of...):
married woman; wife (a married woman; a man's partner in marriage)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A woman mayor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("mayoress" is a kind of...):
city manager; mayor (the head of a city government)
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