noun
-
the wife or widow of a peer
-
a woman holding the rank of a peer in her own right
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of peeress
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
However, on her appointment as minister for Europe, she became a peeress in her own right.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023
Which explains how the Mayfair peeress who asked me for cocktails one day has a villa packed with Vieux Paris silver-plate and Louis XVI armchairs covered in needlepoint scenes from La Fontaine’s “Fables.”
From New York Times ● May 20, 2011
Deft deflater ... of pedantic pomposity, peerless peeress among her presidential peers, who knits serenely as the tumbrels cart off many a less resilient colleague from academic heights .
From Time Magazine Archive
Every house on the street is the property of a peer or peeress.
From Time Magazine Archive
"An English peeress is a princess, and must dispense her wealth generously."
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
