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TRAITRESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does traitress mean?
• TRAITRESS (noun)
The noun TRAITRESS has 1 sense:
1. female traitor
Familiarity information: TRAITRESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Female traitor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("traitress" is a kind of...):
traitor; treasonist (someone who betrays his country by committing treason)
Context examples
He and his master dragged me to my room and held judgment upon me as a convicted traitress.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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