"dictatress" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dictator",
        "3": "ess"
      },
      "expansion": "dictator + -ess",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "dictator + -ess",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dictatresses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dictatress (plural dictatresses)",
      "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": "English terms suffixed with -ess",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1601, William Fulbecke, An Historicall Collection of the Continuall Factions, Tumults, and Massacres of the Romans and Italians, London: William Ponsonby, Book 1, Page 86",
          "text": "[…] two things he promised her, and performed for her, which were tokens of a mercilesse heart, the balefull death of his son, and the chaunge of the state, in such sort that Aurelia Orestilla should be the Dictatresse of Rome.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1809, Lord Byron, English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, London: James Cawthorn, page 54",
          "text": "What Athens was in science, Rome in power, / What Tyre appeared in her meridian hour, / ’Tis thine at once, fair Albion, to have been, / Earth’s chief dictatress, ocean’s mighty queen:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1821, John Quincy Adams, address delivered on 4 July, 1821, cited in Antony Jay (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 4,\nAmerica […] well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own […] she would involve herself beyond the power of extraction, in all the wars of interest and intrigue […] which assume the colours and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force […] She might become dictatress of the world."
        },
        {
          "text": "1980, William L. Andrews, The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt, cited in Thomas Votteler (ed.), Short Story Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Gale, Volume 7, 1991, p. 29,\nWellington’s first wife does not belong among the overstuffed dictatresses of the white folks’ kitchen."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 12, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press",
          "text": "How about going for the Oscars? With a comedy. Or a drama. Or a tragicomedy. Let us make a new hybrid, for example, The Great African Dictatress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female dictator; a dictatorial state personified as female."
      ],
      "id": "en-dictatress-en-noun--1m2JZw8",
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "dictator",
          "dictator"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "personified",
          "personify"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dictatrix"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dictatress"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dictator",
        "3": "ess"
      },
      "expansion": "dictator + -ess",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "dictator + -ess",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dictatresses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dictatress (plural dictatresses)",
      "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 suffixed with -ess",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1601, William Fulbecke, An Historicall Collection of the Continuall Factions, Tumults, and Massacres of the Romans and Italians, London: William Ponsonby, Book 1, Page 86",
          "text": "[…] two things he promised her, and performed for her, which were tokens of a mercilesse heart, the balefull death of his son, and the chaunge of the state, in such sort that Aurelia Orestilla should be the Dictatresse of Rome.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1809, Lord Byron, English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, London: James Cawthorn, page 54",
          "text": "What Athens was in science, Rome in power, / What Tyre appeared in her meridian hour, / ’Tis thine at once, fair Albion, to have been, / Earth’s chief dictatress, ocean’s mighty queen:",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1821, John Quincy Adams, address delivered on 4 July, 1821, cited in Antony Jay (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 4,\nAmerica […] well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own […] she would involve herself beyond the power of extraction, in all the wars of interest and intrigue […] which assume the colours and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force […] She might become dictatress of the world."
        },
        {
          "text": "1980, William L. Andrews, The Literary Career of Charles W. Chesnutt, cited in Thomas Votteler (ed.), Short Story Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Gale, Volume 7, 1991, p. 29,\nWellington’s first wife does not belong among the overstuffed dictatresses of the white folks’ kitchen."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, chapter 12, in This Mournable Body, Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press",
          "text": "How about going for the Oscars? With a comedy. Or a drama. Or a tragicomedy. Let us make a new hybrid, for example, The Great African Dictatress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female dictator; a dictatorial state personified as female."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "dictator",
          "dictator"
        ],
        [
          "state",
          "state"
        ],
        [
          "personified",
          "personify"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dictatrix"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dictatress"
}