songstress
Americannoun
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of songstress
Example Sentences
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Anyone who listens to this single on Cyrus’ 2017 album, “Younger Now,” can hear Parton’s bubbly voice behind that of her goddaughter, nestled between samples of phone messages the legend left for the pop songstress.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026
In January of this year, the songstress filed a request asking that Bono be made to pay the $1,023,605.30 in legal fees that she had incurred during the battle.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Veteran songstress Madonna is appealing for the return of missing costumes she wore during her recent Coachella set with Sabrina Carpenter.
From Barron's ● Apr. 21, 2026
Sitting casually in an office space in Century City, the veteran songstress had just dropped her youngest at college 24 hours earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2025
The words songstress and seamstress, besides being, as far as concerns the intermixture of languages, in the predicament of shepherdess, have, moreover, a double feminine termination; 1st. -str, of Germanic, 2nd. -ess, of classical, origin.
From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham
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