Definitions for doyenne

doyenne doy·enne

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

Doyenne is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 84 anagrams from letters in doyenne (deennoy).

Definitions for doyenne

noun

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

Origin of doyenne

1900-05; French, feminine of doyen doyen

Examples for doyenne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for doyenne
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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