Definitions for lioness

lioness li·on·ess

Spelling: [lahy-uh-nis]
IPA: /ˈlaɪ ə nɪs/

Lioness is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in lioness (eilnoss).

Definitions for lioness

noun

  1. a female lion.

Origin of lioness

1250-1300; Middle English liones, leonesse Middle French lion(n)esse. See lion, -ess

Examples for lioness

And that sense of the lioness in winter may account for the softening views of Hillary.

I was expecting this timid little-bird kiss, like a little peck, but she was like a lioness—she practically ate my head off!

The lioness came up, and bitterly lamented the death of her whelp.

Instead she was a lioness, watching over and protecting her sick mate.

She thus became the destroyer of mankind in her lioness avatar as Sekhet.

But lioness holds many unexpected pleasures even for people who do not self-identify as Winehouse completists.

Her face is that of a lioness, and she is suckling two young lions at her breasts.

A lioness plays dumb in life, too, disarming others in business, if not in love, where she prefers “cat and mouse.”

Chris Lee reviews her posthumous song collection lioness: Hidden Treasures.

Quarter of an hour later they reached the spot where they had shot the lioness.

Word Value for lioness
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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