SORCERESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sorceress mean? 

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

1. a woman sorcerer

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SORCERESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman sorcerer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

magician; necromancer; sorcerer; thaumaturge; thaumaturgist; wizard (one who practices magic or sorcery)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sorceress"):

Circe ((Greek mythology) a sorceress who detained Odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine)

 Context examples 

When Boq saw her silver shoes he said, "You must be a great sorceress."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"Why, she's a real sorceress!" cried Frederick Lynn.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What could the little woman possibly mean by calling her a sorceress, and saying she had killed the Wicked Witch of the East?

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"What have you done with me, witch, sorceress? Who is in the room besides you? Have you plotted to drown me?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Besides, you have white in your frock, and only witches and sorceresses wear white.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There lived here then, away at the North, a beautiful princess, who was also a powerful sorceress.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)