Definitions for peeress

peeress peer·ess

Spelling: [peer-is]
IPA: /ˈpɪər ɪs/

Peeress is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in peeress (eeeprss).

Definitions for peeress

noun

  1. the wife or widow of a peer.
  2. a woman having in her own right the rank of a peer.

Origin of peeress

First recorded in 1680-90; peer1 + -ess

Examples for peeress

I would rather he were an earl, and I a peeress in his right.

"If I were a peeress, I would have them," she declared rather wistfully.

And it will be very pleasant to Miss Palmer to be an English peeress.

She knows that you are a peer of England, and that she is a peeress.

To be the rival of a peeress; that peeress a duchess; that duchess the lady of the viceroy!

An English peeress is a princess, and must dispense her wealth generously.

If the peeress as a wife has no rights, what is the state of the cotter's wife?

I know no lady, no peeress in England, who is half so beautiful, so clever as you—not one.

Better have been admired as a governess than shunned as a peeress, which is what she will be.

In the first place, Herbert, I was never intended by nature to be a peeress.

Word Value for peeress
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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