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Definition: Authoress |
AuthoressNoun1. A woman author. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "authoress" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1803. (references) |
Crosswords: Authoress |
| English words defined with "authoress": Penwoman. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "authoress": Berners ♦ CORELLI ♦ GLYNN ♦ Marguerite des Marguerites ♦ Poet, Poetess. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Authoress" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.75% of the time. "Authoress" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.75% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "authoress"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | autore. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | المؤلفة, المبدعة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | авторка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | autorka, spisovatelka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | auteur (author, woman writer, writer), schrýfster (woman writer, writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | aŭtorino (woman writer, writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kirjailijatar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | femme créateur, femme auteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | schriftstellerin, Verfasserin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συγγραφέασ γυναίκα, συγγραφεύσ (penman). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | írónõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | autrice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 作者 (author). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さくしゃ (author), じょりゅうさっか (lady writer, woman writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ben-ughtar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | autora (woman writer, writer), eskritora (woman writer, writer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | authoressay autora. (various references) autoare. (various references) писательница. (various references) autorka. (various references) författarinna (author). (various references) kadın yazar. (various references) nữ tác giả. (various references) awdures. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "authoress": authoresses. (additional references) | |
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"Authoress" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: authoris, Autores. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "authoress" (pronounced 'Au"thor*ess'): Abbess, Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Abscess, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Accentless, Acceptableness, Access, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Actionless, Activeness, Actless, Actress, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adpress. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-o-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: earshots, hoarsest, housesat, outhears, shouters, southers. | |
-2 letters: arouses, authors, earshot, estrous, horstes, housers, oestrus, ousters, outhear, rashest, shouter, sourest, souters, souther, stoures, trashes, tussore. | |
-3 letters: ahorse, arouse, ashore, assert, assort, assure, asters, author, earths, estrus, hastes, haters, hearts, hoarse, horses, horste, horsts, hostas, houser, houses, hursts, hussar, oaters, orates, others, ouster, outers, rashes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-o-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: authorises. | |
+2 letters: authoresses, housemaster, housetrains, southeaster. | |
+3 letters: houseboaters, housefathers, housemasters, houseparents, prothalluses, slaughterous, southeastern, southeasters, urolithiases. | |
+4 letters: heterosexuals, housepainters, southeasterly, southeastward, southwestward. | |
+5 letters: claustrophobes, overenthusiasm, slaughterhouse, slaughterously, southeastwards, southwestwards, subatmospheric, superphosphate, thoroughbasses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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