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: pee-ress. The stress falls on "pee".

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.