"viscountess" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: viscountesses [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English viscountes, viscountesse, probably from Middle French viscontesse; equivalent to viscount + -ess. Doublet of vicomtesse. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|viscountes}} Middle English viscountes, {{der|en|frm|viscontesse}} Middle French viscontesse, {{suffix|en|viscount|ess|nocat=1}} viscount + -ess, {{doublet|en|vicomtesse}} Doublet of vicomtesse Head templates: {{en-noun}} viscountess (plural viscountesses)
  1. The wife of a viscount. Categories (topical): Female people, Nobility Translations (viscount's wife): vicgrafino (Esperanto), varakreivitär (Finnish), vicomtesse [feminine] (French), bíocuntaois [feminine] (Irish), viscontessa [feminine] (Italian), 子爵 (shishaku) (Japanese), виконте́са (vikontésa) [feminine] (Macedonian), viscondessa [feminine] (Portuguese), vicontesă [feminine] (Romanian), vizcondesa [feminine] (Spanish), biskondesa (Tagalog), is-iarlles [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-viscountess-en-noun-w2vb9WGT Disambiguation of Female people: 69 31 Disambiguation of Nobility: 58 42 Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ess (wife) Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ess (wife): 45 55 Disambiguation of "viscount's wife": 70 30
  2. A woman holding the rank of viscount in her own right. Translations (a woman holding the rank of viscount in her own right): vicgrafino (Esperanto), vicomtesse [feminine] (French), bíocuntaois [feminine] (Irish), viscontessa [feminine] (Italian), 子爵 (shishaku) (Japanese), lhiass-ven-eearley [masculine] (Manx), wicehrabina [feminine] (Polish), viscondessa [feminine] (Portuguese), is-iarlles [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-viscountess-en-noun-SWk3pvL6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ess (female), English terms suffixed with -ess (wife), Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Manx translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations, Terms with Welsh translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ess (female): 15 85 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ess (wife): 45 55 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 19 81 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 10 90 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Manx translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 28 72 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 30 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 6 94 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 9 91 Disambiguation of 'a woman holding the rank of viscount in her own right': 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: V [symbol], Vis., Visc., Visct [abbreviation], Vtesse [contraction] Hyponyms: vicomtesse (english: French viscountess)

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English 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.