governess

noun

Definition of governessnext
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as in duenna

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as in reader

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Recent Examples of governess The ladies Carnarvon, their daughters, and their guests—not to mention the governesses, maids, and cooks? — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026 Maybe for a governess, but a maid? — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026 Their governess, Marion Crawford, educated them on the building’s third floor, offering a chronicle of the comfortable home in her 1950 memoir, The Little Princesses. — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 24 Feb. 2026 Like many young women of her generation, Lady Anne was educated at home by a governess and reportedly excelled at music and languages. — Stephanie Bridger-Linning, Vanity Fair, 17 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for governess
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  1. reader
  2. doctor
  3. preacher
  4. professor
  5. dean
  6. pedant
  7. academician
  8. academe
Noun
  • Within 15 minutes, the city’s license plate readers led officers to the vehicle and the suspect, who has since been revealed to be Saleem Martin.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Riccio points out oftentimes the license plates to legal vehicles are removed or blocked, which keeps them from being traced on license plate readers.
    — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of reader
Noun
  • When reached by phone by CNN, one of the lead doctors for the trial, Yu Yongguo, declined to comment and hung up.
    — Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 31 July 2026
  • That process happens anywhere in the world — including in the human gut, where microbes eat indigestible foods, and create a byproduct medical doctors might describe as flatulence.
    — Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Definition of doctor
Noun
  • John Lewis Dyer, an itinerant Methodist preacher, arrived with the earliest prospectors in 1862.
    — John Meyer, Denver Post, 26 July 2026
  • Videos posted on social media show street preachers speaking with multiple police officers outside the event.
    — Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 July 2026
Definition of preacher
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  • More than simply creating programs, professors must try to prepare students for widely differing goals for using AI in their careers.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brigham Young University, agrees the price of showing up has become its own barrier.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of professor
Noun
  • In 1986, she was appointed as the associate dean of arts and letters at the Kendall campus and 10 years later, Holloway was appointed academic dean at the Wolfson campus under then-president Eduardo Padron.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 29 July 2026
  • Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley Law (ACLU Presidential Prize); and Elizabeth Foster, a South Carolina advocate for the freedom to read (the also-new ACLU Next Generation Leader in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties award).
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 25 July 2026
Definition of dean
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  • Rarely is there much conceptual overlap between the categories of pedant and genius.
    — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2026
  • Avery, the heroine of Anika Jade Levy’s debut novel, Flat Earth (Catapult, $26), spends many turgid nights with a pedant.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Definition of pedant
Noun
  • The framing story follows Toño, a struggling writer, would-be academician and lifelong devotee of traditional Peruvian creole music.
    — Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 24 May 2026
  • Church did not, however, neglect the National Academy, and in 1849—in the midst of bloody riots pitting nativists against immigrants and New York’s working class against the wealthy—he was promoted to full academician status.
    — Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Definition of academician
Noun
  • And in the academe, there is a growing demand for nuclear science education.
    — Lorela U. Sandoval, Christian Science Monitor, 25 June 2026
  • Different goals lead to different strategies The differences between industry and academe begin with a divergence in purpose.
    — Maysam Ghovanloo, IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2026
Definition of academe

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