"dragoness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dragonesses [plural]
Etymology: From dragon + -ess. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|dragon|ess}} dragon + -ess Head templates: {{en-noun}} dragoness (plural dragonesses)
  1. (rare, archaic, chiefly figurative) A female dragon. Tags: archaic, figuratively, rare
    Sense id: en-dragoness-en-noun-yajNf6TA
  2. (fantasy, especially furry fandom) A female dragon. Tags: especially, slang Categories (topical): Fantasy Synonyms: dragonette
    Sense id: en-dragoness-en-noun-yajNf6TA1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ess Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 99 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 1 99 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ess: 3 97 Topics: fantasy, lifestyle
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dragonness Translations (a female dragon): δράκαινα (drákaina) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), আজদাহাণী (ajdahani) (Bengali), dragona [feminine] (Catalan), dračice [feminine] (Czech), drakino (Esperanto), dracène [feminine] (French), dragonne [feminine] (French), Drachin [feminine] (German), dragonessa [feminine] (Italian), draga [feminine] (Italian), smoczyca [feminine] (Polish), dragoa [feminine] (Portuguese), dragona [feminine] (Spanish), drakhona [common-gender] (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'a female dragon': 50 50

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