mayoress
Americannoun
-
a woman who is the chief executive official of a city, village, or town.
-
the wife of a mayor.
noun
-
the wife of a mayor
-
a female mayor
Gender
See -ess.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mayoress
1400–50; mayor + -ess; replacing late Middle English meyresse
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.
See Examples For:
For the mayoress he wrote catchy pastiches that might have come from a witty chanteuse’s nightclub act.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2021
Her husband could often be jealous of playing second fiddle on ceremonial occasions so "I decided not to make him mayoress as I thought that would make that worse".
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2018
When that lady mayoress and the lord mayor visited Austin in 1983, they gave the opal to Austin.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2015
Last week, some mediocre California mayoress announced that she wasn’t going to attend a Veterans Day event in her city of Richmond.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2011
The figures of the mayoress and a train of lovely maidens then passed by.
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry
The lady mayoresses were delightful in all their pride and glory.
From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Van Dyke, John Charles
Other mayoral chains blazed in the centre of the platform, together with fine hats of mayoresses and uniforms of police-superintendents and captains of fire-brigades.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
There, now; that's something that I can quite recommend; it's decidedly à la mode, worn by all the duchesses, countesses, baronesses, and lady mayoresses, at all the balls, routs, conversaziones, and concerts given this season!
From The Crown of Success by A. L. O. E.
Nevertheless, balls had been offered by previous mayoresses.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Bennett, Arnold
Definitions 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.
