"songstress" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈsɑŋɡ.stɹɪs/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-songstress.ogg [US] Forms: songstresses [plural]
Rhymes: -ɑŋɡstɹɪs Etymology: From songster + -ess. Compare West Frisian sjongeres (“songstress”), Dutch zangeres (“songstress”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|songster|ess}} songster + -ess, {{cog|fy|sjongeres||songstress}} West Frisian sjongeres (“songstress”), {{cog|nl|zangeres||songstress}} Dutch zangeres (“songstress”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} songstress (plural songstresses)
  1. A female singer. Categories (topical): Female people, Musicians Categories (lifeform): Female animals Synonyms (female singer): cantrix [archaic], chanteuse, chantress, singeress [obsolete, rare] Translations (a female singer): 女歌手 (nǚ gēshǒu) (Chinese Mandarin), zpěvačka [feminine] (Czech), pěvkyně [feminine] (Czech), sangerinde [common-gender] (Danish), zangeres [feminine] (Dutch), kantistino (Esperanto), laulajatar (Finnish), naislaulaja (Finnish), chanteuse [feminine] (French), Sängerin [feminine] (German), énekesnő (Hungarian), cantante [feminine, masculine] (Italian), 女性歌手 (josei kashu) (alt: じょせいかしゅ) (Japanese), 歌姫 (utahime) (alt: うたひめ) (Japanese), cantrīx [feminine] (Latin), syngeresse (Middle English), syngster (Middle English), sangerinne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), śpiewaczka [feminine] (Polish), cantora [feminine] (Portuguese), певи́ца (pevíca) [feminine] (Russian), певу́нья (pevúnʹja) [feminine, uncommon] (Russian), bean-seinn [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), пјева̀чица [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), pjevàčica [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), cantante [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), cantora [feminine] (Spanish), sångerska [common-gender] (Swedish), співа́чка (spiváčka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), זינגערין (zingerin) [feminine] (Yiddish), זינגערקע (zingerke) [feminine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-songstress-en-noun-rBbFVoga Disambiguation of Female people: 74 26 Disambiguation of Musicians: 99 1 Disambiguation of Female animals: 72 28 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ess Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 99 1 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ess: 95 5 Disambiguation of 'female singer': 79 21 Disambiguation of 'a female singer': 73 27
  2. A female songbird.
    Sense id: en-songstress-en-noun-liS-1mnP
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: songster

Inflected forms

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      ],
      "word": "pjevàčica"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a female singer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cantante"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "a female singer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cantora"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "a female singer",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "sångerska"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "spiváčka",
      "sense": "a female singer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "співа́чка"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "zingerin",
      "sense": "a female singer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "זינגערין"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "zingerke",
      "sense": "a female singer",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "זינגערקע"
    }
  ],
  "word": "songstress"
}

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