peeress

Other forms of peeress

plural

peeresses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about peeress

What does peeress mean?

peeress means "a woman of the peerage in Britain".

How many syllables are in peeress?

peeress has 2 syllables and divides as pee-ress under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for peeress?

Close synonyms include Lady, noblewoman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peeress a common word?

peeress is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.