countess

noun

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as in duchess

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Recent Examples of countess Beyond fancy friends and connections to famous people, what the countess has most of all is game. — Luisa Opalesky, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026 De Lesseps turned a fall from countess to tabloid fixture into a thriving cabaret career. — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 4 Aug. 2026 Where foreign adventurers once brought conflict to Costa Rica’s coast, a European countess left behind a sanctuary of profound peace. — Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026 Jarman and Karen Spencer were previously embroiled in legal proceedings after the archeologist sued the countess in 2024, People and The Times reported. — Melina Khan, USA Today, 19 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for countess
Recent Examples of Synonyms for countess
  1. duchess
  2. baroness
  3. princess
  4. marchioness
  5. queen
  6. marquise
  7. viscountess
  8. gentlewoman
Noun
  • The duchess was seen publicly for the first time in London late last week visiting with activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The last Christmas Harry and Meghan spent with the royal family was in 2018, when the duchess was expecting their first child, Archie.
    — Blanche Marcel, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of duchess
Noun
  • The late baroness allegedly had a complex relationship with her granddaughter.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 5 June 2026
  • She is accompanied on her travels by a wealthy baroness, whom the other women come to understand is her lover.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 May 2026
Definition of baroness
Noun
  • The changes include allowing the adoption of distant male relatives raised as commoners to become royals and father future heirs, and letting princesses keep their royal status after marrying commoners.
    — Mari Yamaguchi, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Previously, princesses who marry a commoner had to renounce their royal status and leave the royal family.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of princess
Noun
  • In 2020, Emma, previously Viscountess Weymouth, became Britain's first Black marchioness when her husband inherited the title upon the death of his father.
    — Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • Marjorie Paget, marchioness of Anglesey, wore the necklace to the coronation of King George VI in 1937.
    — Amarachi Orie, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
Definition of marchioness
Noun
  • Up there like the queen of it all is this big platelike moon with a sliver out of it at the three-o’clock position.
    — George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
  • This earlier Russell work did not include acid queens, pinball wizards, or teenage-wasteland messiahs.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of queen
Noun
  • Those 4,400+ diamonds were rendered in seven cuts—angel, heart, pear, marquise, oval, radiant, and round brilliant—and used four setting techniques meant to enhance the diamonds’ brilliance.
    — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Younger consumers are also gravitating toward personalization and distinctive engagement-ring designs, including oval and marquise shapes.
    — Tatiana Sataua, Fortune, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of marquise
Noun
  • And while the past tenants of Royal Lodge exuded an elegant lore for the highbrow interests of a viscountess, the Jeffrey Epstein–associated Andrew is shrouded in such scandal that if Royal Lodge had been put on the real estate market, the listing price might have knocked down a few million.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The four episodes feature lots of returning cast members and new faces, but fans of Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) and Kate Bridgerton (Simone Ashley), the viscount and viscountess, will be disheartened to learn that the couple doesn’t make an appearance in part one.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Definition of viscountess
Noun
  • Those laughs are balanced with real world issues, and a longing for these gentlewomen locked into the suffocating zeitgeist of early 1800s British Regency.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Social status and fashion conspired to make gentlewomen’s footwear of every sort flimsy.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
Definition of gentlewoman

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