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Definition: Countess |
CountessNoun1. Female equivalent of a count or earl. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "countess" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | Slate, size 20 in by 10 in (50.8 cm by 25.4 cm); a duchess is 24 in by 12 in (61.0 cm by 30.5 cm), and a princess is 24 in by 14 in (61.0 cm by 35.6cm). Terms descriptive of slate trimmed for roofing. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nobility | Princess, begum, duchess, marchioness; countess; lady, dame; memsahib; Do$a, maharani, rani. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Countess |
| English words defined with "countess": Countesses ♦ earldom ♦ marchioness, marquise. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "countess": Amphialus, Annabel ♦ Callipolis, Cottage Countess, Countess di Civillari ♦ Dorinda ♦ Fair-star, Fenella, Fraserian ♦ Henneberg, Hon'i ♦ Isabelle ♦ Lutin ♦ Mita ♦ Peeping Tom of Coventry, Poisoners ♦ Sidney-Sussex College. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "countess": salmagundi. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm a genuine countess with a lot of dough, and if that's your wife she's a tub of guts (The Purple Rose of Cairo; writing credit: Woody Allen.) Countess, believe me, before you left this room, I would have told you everything (Trouble in Paradise; writing credit: Aladar Laszlo; Grover Jones) It is an illusion, Countess. (Poirot; writing credit: Clive Exton; Anthony Horowitz) Courage is no match for an unfriendly shoe, Countess (For Your Eyes Only; writing credit: Richard Maibaum) Would you have me challenge the poor countess to a duel (The Scarlet Pimpernel; writing credit: William Bast; Baroness Emmuska Orczy) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Countess Dracula (1970) A Countess from Hong Kong (1967) The Countess of Monte Cristo (1948) Countess Bloggie (1920) The Countess of Summacount (1917) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The cure of the Countess Of Chinchon, Vicereine Of Peru : Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The old countess. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Countess sat in a bath chair. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Countess Tolstoy, relative of the famous Russian author. She is an indefatigable worker in the Russian Red Cross in Western Siberia. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Countess. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Selina, Countess of Huntingdon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | But this expiation was not sufficient for two noble women, Madame Courtin, Marquise de Boucs, and the Countess of Chateauvieux |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The Countess Richmond, good my Lord of Derby, To your good prayer will scarcely say amen |
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| "Countess" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.89% of the time. "Countess" is used about 474 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) | 65.89% | 313 | 16,314 |
| Noun (proper) | 32% | 152 | 25,494 |
| Noun (plural) | 2.11% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 474 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "countess" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Countess | Last name | 1,000 | 16,214 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "countess": Duchess-countess. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "countess"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | konteshë. (various references) | |
Arabic | سيدة نبيلة, زوجة الكونت. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | графиня. (various references) | |
Czech | hrabìnka (ladyship). (various references) | |
Farsi | کنتس . (various references) | |
Finnish | kreivitär. (various references) | |
French | comtesse. (various references) | |
German | Gräfin (ladyship). (various references) | |
Greek | κόμισσα, κόμησσα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | אשת רוזן, רוז ת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | grófné, grófnő. (various references) | |
Italian | contessa. (various references) | |
Manx | ben eearley. (various references) | |
Norwegian | grevinne. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ountesscay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | condessa. (various references) | |
Romanian | contesã. (various references) | |
Russian | графиня. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | grofica. (various references) | |
Spanish | condesa. (various references) | |
Swedish | grevinna. (various references) | |
Turkish | kontes. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | графиня. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nữ bá tước vợ bá tước. (various references) | |
Welsh | iarlles. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cometissa, cometissa comitissa, cometissa, comitissa. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "countess": countesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "countess": viscountess. (additional references) | |
Words containing "countess": viscountesses. (additional references) | |
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"Countess" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contesa, countessa, countest, countreys, countss, couteuses, cuntess. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "countess" (pronounced kou"ntus) |
| 4 | -n t u s | apprentice, momentous, portentous. |
| 3 | -t u s | apparatus, armistice, arthritis, asbestos, berettas, bronchitis, cactus, calamitous, circuitous, detritus, duplicitous, emeritus, encephalitis, eucalyptus, felicitous, fetus, fortuitous, gastritis, glottis, gratis, gratuitous, gravitas, hepatitis, hiatus, hostess, impetus, injustice, justice, laryngitis, lattice, lettuce, Lotus, malpractice, margaritas, mastoiditis, meningitis, notice, osteoarthritis, poultice, precipitous, priestess, prophetess, prospectus, riotous, robustas, serendipitous, situs, solicitous, status, Stratus, tortoise, treatise, ubiquitous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: contuses. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-n-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: contuse, tonuses. | |
-2 letters: census, centos, cestos, cestus, contes, cosets, cosset, counts, custos, escots, nouses, onsets, onuses, ounces, scents, scones, scouse, scouts, scutes, setons, setous, snouts, stenos, stones, sunset, touses, unsets. | |
-3 letters: cento, cents, centu, cones, conte, conus, coses, coset, costs, cotes, count, cusso, cutes, escot, nests, noses, notes, onces, onset, ounce, ousts, scent. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-n-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: conquests, construes, countless. | |
+2 letters: conspectus, consulates, consulters, countesses, courtesans, curbstones, incestuous, scutcheons, seductions, subsection, touchiness. | |
+3 letters: ceanothuses, conceptuses, conductress, consequents, constitutes, consuetudes, consumerist, consummates, corruptness, countersues, countlessly, courtliness, decussation, discounters, escutcheons, inosculates, misconstrue, necessitous, nonsubjects, reconquests, rediscounts, sansculotte, scroungiest, subcounties, subjections, subsections, supertonics, surjections, touchstones, uncouthness, viscountess, viscounties. | |
+4 letters: captiousness, cautiousness, consecutions, conspectuses, constituents, consumerists, consumptives, cotransduces, counterposes, countershots, countersigns, countersinks, counterspies, countersteps, countersuits, countryseats, countrysides, covetousness, crosscurrent, deconstructs, decussations, destructions, discontinues, exclusionist, excursionist, factiousness, fluorescents, functionless, incestuously, intercourses, misconstrued, misconstrues, neuroticisms, noncustomers, outdistances, persecutions, postconquest, postulancies, prosecutions, reconstructs, sansculottes, speculations, stonecutters, stringcourse, subcutaneous, subpotencies, touchinesses, unassociated, unctuousness, viscountcies. | |
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