heroess
English
Etymology
hero + -ess
Noun
heroess (plural heroesses)
- (obsolete) A heroine; a female hero.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for heroess in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- reshoes, sheroes