peeress
/peer-is/US // ˈpɪər ɪs //UK // (ˈpɪərɪs) //
女同胞,女同胞们,女农民,女教师
Related Words
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : the wife or widow of a peer.
- : a woman having in her own right the rank of a peer.
Synonyms & Antonyms
as inbaroness
as innoblewoman
Examples
Nevertheless she triumphed; he had made her a peeress, and she did care for that; she cared also for the broad lands of Hartledon.
Why should not a peeress feel herself as properly placed among her peers as the Queen seated at her Council?
He afterwards was made secretary of state, married a peeress, and spent his last days at Holland House.
But Lady Shrewsbury was a peeress and the widow of a Talbot, and criminal rank in those days was banished not executed.
My father set my sister up in business as a British peeress and bought her her husband and settled a whacking dower on her.
Level 4Browse all words →