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
Marquises and countesses pose in faux-rustic settings, their gray curly hair gathered into rat tails.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2016
The savage makes the characters beasts or birds; the epic \ poet or saga-man made them heroic kings, or lovely, baleful sorceresses, daughters of the Sun; the French Countess makes them princesses and countesses.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang
