conductress

American  

[kuhn-duhk-tris] / kənˈdʌk trɪs /

noun

1. a woman who conducts; a female leader, guide, director, or manager.

2. a woman who is employed as a conductor on a bus, train, or other public conveyance.

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Gender

What's the difference between conductress and conductor? See -ess.

Etymology

Origin of conductress

First recorded in 1615–25; conduct(o)r + -ess

Example Sentences

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conductress

During World War Two she moved to Glasgow to work as a conductress on the trams and survived the Clydebank blitz.

From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2021

"Really good performances, a credit to conductress and players alike," said the News Chronicle.

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw how the shining garments of my conductress swept over the moss, giving to it, to the flowers, the grass, the trees, the same soft radiance that emanated from her form.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

I forgot myself and my conductress, and eyes and heart were lost in ecstacy in gazing on those golden clouds.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

The duke, still guided by his conductress, who held his hand, reached a staircase built in the thick wall, and opening by a secret and invisible door into the antechamber of Marguerite's apartment.

From Marguerite de Valois by Dumas père, Alexandre