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NOBLEWOMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A woman of the peerage in Britain
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("noblewoman" is a kind of...):
female aristocrat (a woman who is an aristocrat)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "noblewoman"):
baroness (a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron)
countess (female equivalent of a count or earl)
duchess (the wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right)
lady-in-waiting (a lady appointed to attend to a queen or princess)
marchioness; marquise (a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess)
Milady (an English noblewoman)
Instance hyponyms:
Borgia; Duchess of Ferrara; Lucrezia Borgia (Italian noblewoman and patron of the arts (1480-1519))
Godiva; Lady Godiva (according to legend she rode naked through Coventry in order to persuade her husband not to tax the townspeople so heavily; the only person to look at her as she rode by was a man named Tom and Peeping Tom has become a synonym for voyeur (circa 1040-1080))
Amy Lyon; Hamilton; Lady Emma Hamilton (English beauty who was the mistress of Admiral Nelson (1765-1815))
Holonyms ("noblewoman" is a member of...):
baronage; peerage (the peers of a kingdom considered as a group)
Antonym:
nobleman (a titled peer of the realm)
