• Huntress

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /ˈhÊŒntɹᵻs/

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    Origin

    From hunter + -ess, possibly on the model of the likes of mistress.

    Full definition of huntress

    Noun

    huntress

    (plural huntresses)
    1. A female hunter.
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:In those same woods ye well remember may
        How that a noble hunteress did wonne ....
      • 2014, William Kremer, A 13-year-old eagle huntress in Mongolia, BBC World Service:Ashol-Pan, the daughter of a particularly celebrated hunter, may well be the country's only apprentice huntress.

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