countess
noun
the wife or widow of a count in the nobility of Continental Europe or of an earl in the British peerage.
countesses
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pluralof countess.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Yesterday’s countesses lacked those freedoms and were bound to serve as propriety’s standard bearers.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025
He jived and twisted with Gloria Vanderbilt and a succession of foreign countesses.
From MSNBC ● Nov. 15, 2017
Malloy saw his own artsy social circle in the novel’s princes and countesses.
From The New Yorker ● May 5, 2017
Designer Ulyana Sergeenko flew in from Moscow to show a delightful collection inspired by Soviet life under the Bolsheviks, where countesses and peasants lived together in once-grand apartments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2015
If your tallow-chandlers', vintners', and other tradesmen's wives flaunt it in a chariot and four, what shall your marchionesses or countesses do, I wonder?
From Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. by James Parton
