lioness

[ lahy-uh-nis ]

/ ˈlaɪ ə nɪs /

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noun

a female lion.

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Origin of lioness

1250–1300; Middle English liones, leonesse<Middle French lion(n)esse.See lion, -ess

Words nearby lioness

Linz, Linzer torte, lion, lioncel, Lionel, lioness, lionet, lionfish, lionheart, lionhearted, lionize

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How to use lioness in a sentence

Several got very sick, including the zoo’s 16-year-old lioness, Shera, who was showing signs of kidney failure.
How zoos persuade animals to get the coronavirus vaccine. (M&Ms and ice cream help.)|Matt Blitz|October 25, 2021|Washington Post
Attack it like a lioness tearing apart a zebra, and you can knock it out in a little over an hour, with your legs burning from start to finish.
Why 20 Miles Is the Perfect Length for a Bike Ride|Eben Weiss|November 20, 2020|Outside Online
I was expecting this timid little-bird kiss, like a little peck, but she was like a lioness—she practically ate my head off!
NCIS’s 11th Anniversary: Michael Weatherly’s Top 10 Moments|Michael Weatherly|September 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And that sense of the lioness in winter may account for the softening views of Hillary.
How Hillary Clinton Got Hot After Years of Being Stuck With a Cold Image|Howard Kurtz|April 13, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Chris Lee reviews her posthumous song collection Lioness: Hidden Treasures.
Amy Winehouse's Soul-Searing Final Album, 'Lioness: Hidden Treasures'|Chris Lee|December 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST
But Lioness holds many unexpected pleasures even for people who do not self-identify as Winehouse completists.
Amy Winehouse's Soul-Searing Final Album, 'Lioness: Hidden Treasures'|Chris Lee|December 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST
A Lioness plays dumb in life, too, disarming others in business, if not in love, where she prefers “cat and mouse.”
The Stars Predict Your Week|Starsky + Cox|August 13, 2011|DAILY BEAST
And say: Why did thy mother the lioness lie down among the lions, and bring up her whelps in the midst of young lions?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
They know that I am a lioness defending her young, and that I alone prevent their daring hands from seizing your crown.
Catherine de' Medici|Honore de Balzac
A lioness died, and left two little lion-cubs with no one to take care of them.
St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878|Various
The female, like the lioness, however, produces four or five cubs at a time.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
He was a young British army officer who was mauled by a lioness several months ago in Somaliland.
In Africa|John T. McCutcheon

British Dictionary definitions for lioness

lioness

/ (ˈlaɪənɪs) /

noun

a female lion

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