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

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

After bidding their pretty conductress "good night," our travellers prepared themselves for that repose which their wearied frames did not long seek in vain.

From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by Kennedy, John Pendleton

From the r�fectoire we passed again into the corridor, where we made our adieus to our affable conductress.

From A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors by Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen)

The shades of night had again stolen over the world, when we heard the gentle voice of our conductress calling us; and once more she set out, we following her in Indian file as before.

From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles