Usually means: Suffix denoting female gender identity.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word -ess:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. -ess: Merriam-Webster
  2. -ess, -ess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. -ess, -ess: Collins English Dictionary
  4. -ess: Wordnik
  5. -ess: Wiktionary
  6. -ess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. -ess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. -ess: Dictionary.com
  9. -ess: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. -ess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. -ess: MyWord.info

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -ess: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -ess: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -ess: Medical dictionary





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