Governess is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 286 anagrams from letters in governess (eegnorssv).
1400-50; late Middle English governeress Old French gouverneresse, feminine of gouverneur governor; see -ess
Your governess cannot win the confidence and respect of your children, forsooth!
Think of a mere governess, her daughter's governess, coming to that high distinction!
Every morning I went to the Conservatoire with my governess.
She was a governess in the house of one of his friends in ——.
governess: A young woman who was typically employed by wealthy families to care for and privately educate their children.
Victoria Winters: An orphan who is engaged by the Collins family as a governess for young David Collins.
Later she got a job as governess to the illegitimate children that Louis XIV had fathered with another mistress.
I did not insist, but I sent for my son's governess, Mlle. Soubise.
In the first place, I could not talk about it with my governess, as she would not discuss the piece at all.
The girl would become Victoria Winters, an orphan hired by the Collins Family as a governess for the troubled young heir.
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