Definitions for doyennes

doyennes doy·enne

Spelling: [doi-en; French dwa-yen]
IPA: /dɔɪˈɛn; French dwaˈyɛn/

Doyennes is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in doyennes (deennosy).

Definitions for doyennes

noun

  1. a woman who is the senior member, as in age or rank, of a group, class, profession, etc.

Origin of doyennes

1900-05; French, feminine of doyen doyen

Examples for doyennes

As eight of her novels are republished, we salute a doyenne of literary fiction whose work juxtaposes tragedy and comedy.

She did not seem in the least surprised at seeing me alone; possibly the doyenne had written her own account of the headache.

This one was a doyenne du Comice, the most delicious kind of all.

This presents both a new work and pieces chosen from her 40-year career as the doyenne of performance art.

When I reached home I changed my dress and drove to the house of the "suffering" doyenne.

As Democratic doyenne Pamela Harriman once put it, "he's not entirely housebroken."

I had no idea what les manches de cour were, and, naturally, I went to the doyenne to find out.

There was no alternative, and the absence of the doyenne must explain itself as best it could.

Not in 2005, when his mother, once the doyenne of Park Avenue, could by nearly all accounts no longer even remember his name.

This week, Liz Smith, the doyenne of gossip columnists, was fired after more than 30 years of writing for New York newspapers.

Word Value for doyennes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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