editress

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
9
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈɛdɪtɹəs/ (US)

Definition of editress

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (dated)A female editor.
    “This must be Arduina, her sister-in-law, editress of a Woman's Rights paper, who had written her two or three extraordinary letters.”
    “"If it doesn't suit will you let Mrs. Langdon, the editress know by lunch-time today?"”
    ““Girls like Phyllis Mills are an open book to me. For four years I was, if you remember, the proprietor and editress of a weekly paper for women.” She was alluding to the periodical entitled Milady's Boudoir […]”

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Etymology

From editor + -ess.

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