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

Ellen's conductress looked in first through one of the panes, and then opening the door motioned her to enter.

From The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

The conductress was to be Ludmilla, well known for her greet godliness, wife of Wenzeslaus Wymbrsky, who had gone through the baptism of water and blood.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

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 M?r J?kai