Usually means: Tailor specializing in women's clothing.
Definitions Related words Mentions History
We found 18 dictionaries that define the word sempstress:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. sempstress: Merriam-Webster
  2. sempstress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sempstress: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sempstress: Vocabulary.com
  5. sempstress: Wordnik
  6. sempstress: Wiktionary
  7. sempstress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. sempstress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sempstress: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sempstress: Dictionary.com
  11. Sempstress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. sempstress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. sempstress: Rhymezone
  14. Sempstress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. sempstress: FreeDictionary.org
  16. sempstress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. sempstress: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sempstress: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky
Definitions from Wiktionary (sempstress)

▸ noun:  A seamstress, a woman employed to sew.

Similar:
seamstress, needlewoman, dressmaker, modiste, sempster, seamstressy, seamer, semster, seamster, sewist, more...

Opposite:
tailor, dressmaker, couturier

Adjectives:
young, little, poor, haggard, pretty, good, excellent, certain, french, mediumistic, humble

▸ Words similar to sempstress

▸ Usage examples for sempstress

▸ Idioms related to sempstress

▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)

▸ Popular adjectives describing sempstress

▸ Words that often appear near sempstress

▸ Rhymes of sempstress

▸ Invented words related to sempstress

Similar:
seamstress, needlewoman, dressmaker, modiste, sempster, seamstressy, seamer, semster, seamster, sewist, more...

Opposite:
tailor, dressmaker, couturier

Adjectives:
young, little, poor, haggard, pretty, good, excellent, certain, french, mediumistic, humble



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.


(Click a button above to see words related to "sempstress" that fit the given meter.)



Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux