"Altess" meaning in All languages combined

See Altess on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: Altesses [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French altesse. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|fr|altesse}} Borrowed from French altesse Head templates: {{en-noun}} Altess (plural Altesses)
  1. (archaic, uncommon) Highness. Tags: archaic, uncommon
    Sense id: en-Altess-en-noun-B2qGNat9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "altesse"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French altesse",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French altesse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Altesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Altess (plural Altesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1663, James Heath, “Anno Dom. 1655”, in A Brief Chronicle of the Late Inteſtine VVarr […] , […] J. Beſt for William Lee, page 694:",
          "text": "A Swediſh Ambaſſador named Chriſtian Bond arrived here near the ſame time, and was in great ſtate received according to the Amplitude of his Highneſs, and Rolt a Bed-chamberman of this Alteſs was ſent reciprocally to the King of Sweden, but was near quitting the Coſt of his journey by a terrible ſtorm.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1856, Thomas Overbury, “Crumms Fal'n from King James's Table. Or His Table Talk, Principally Relating to Religion, Embassyes, State-policy &c”, in Edward Francis Rimbault, editor, The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., London: John Russell Smith, page 274:",
          "text": "100. Sir Henry Wotton sending a letter to his maᵗʸ from Venice, related how the Prince of Conde sued for the title of Altess from the Synode of Venice, which was refused ; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906 January 5, Beatrix Demarest Lloyd, “The Outsider”, in The Smart Set, volume 18, number 1, section IX, page 38, column 1:",
          "text": "She is going to be true and loyal to him against all the forces of the globe, if necessary, and he is going to be proud of her to the death. That is why I love her, Altess. She may be a duchess, and a great lady, but she is something better than that besides.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, W. Holt White, “Torfeldt Takes a Hand” (chapter VI), in The Man Who Dreamed Right, London, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 84:",
          "text": "“I have seen Mymms, your Altess,” he said.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964 [1959], John Paul Jones, “Kontradmiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones: 1788-1789” (chapter XX), in Samuel Eliot Morison, editor, John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography, New York: Time Inc., page 376:",
          "text": "You will doubtless find it necessary to send these Papers to his Altess the Prince de Potemkin, to obtain positive Orders to preventing any too hasty Step.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Highness."
      ],
      "id": "en-Altess-en-noun-B2qGNat9",
      "links": [
        [
          "Highness",
          "Highness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, uncommon) Highness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Altess"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "altesse"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from French altesse",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French altesse.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Altesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Altess (plural Altesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms borrowed from French",
        "English terms derived from French",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with uncommon senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1663, James Heath, “Anno Dom. 1655”, in A Brief Chronicle of the Late Inteſtine VVarr […] , […] J. Beſt for William Lee, page 694:",
          "text": "A Swediſh Ambaſſador named Chriſtian Bond arrived here near the ſame time, and was in great ſtate received according to the Amplitude of his Highneſs, and Rolt a Bed-chamberman of this Alteſs was ſent reciprocally to the King of Sweden, but was near quitting the Coſt of his journey by a terrible ſtorm.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1856, Thomas Overbury, “Crumms Fal'n from King James's Table. Or His Table Talk, Principally Relating to Religion, Embassyes, State-policy &c”, in Edward Francis Rimbault, editor, The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., London: John Russell Smith, page 274:",
          "text": "100. Sir Henry Wotton sending a letter to his maᵗʸ from Venice, related how the Prince of Conde sued for the title of Altess from the Synode of Venice, which was refused ; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906 January 5, Beatrix Demarest Lloyd, “The Outsider”, in The Smart Set, volume 18, number 1, section IX, page 38, column 1:",
          "text": "She is going to be true and loyal to him against all the forces of the globe, if necessary, and he is going to be proud of her to the death. That is why I love her, Altess. She may be a duchess, and a great lady, but she is something better than that besides.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1910, W. Holt White, “Torfeldt Takes a Hand” (chapter VI), in The Man Who Dreamed Right, London, New York: Mitchell Kennerley, page 84:",
          "text": "“I have seen Mymms, your Altess,” he said.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1964 [1959], John Paul Jones, “Kontradmiral Pavel Ivanovich Jones: 1788-1789” (chapter XX), in Samuel Eliot Morison, editor, John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography, New York: Time Inc., page 376:",
          "text": "You will doubtless find it necessary to send these Papers to his Altess the Prince de Potemkin, to obtain positive Orders to preventing any too hasty Step.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Highness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Highness",
          "Highness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, uncommon) Highness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Altess"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Altess meaning in All languages combined (2.9kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.