chieftainess

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A female chieftain.
    — He gazed in silence for some minutes upon the body of Meg Merrilies, as it lay before him, with the features sharpened by death, yet still retaining the stern and energetic character which had maintained in life her superiority as the wild chieftainess of the lawless people amongst whom she was born.
  2. The wife of a chieftain.

词形变化

chieftainesses plural

词汇关系

近义词
chiefess chieftess
上位词
chief chieftain

词源

From chieftain + -ess. Middle English had an equivalent form cheventaynes but the OED asserts the term was derived anew in modern English in the 19th century. Piecewise doublet of captainess.
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