editressとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɛdɪtɹəs/

名詞

editress (plural editresses)

1. (dated) A female editor.
   • 1905, Grazia Deledda, chapter 1, in Helen Hester Colvill, transl., Nostalgia, page 8:

     This must be Arduina, her sister-in-law, editress of a Woman's Rights paper, who had written her two or three extraordinary letters.

   • 1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 80:

     "If it doesn't suit will you let Mrs. Langdon, the editress know by lunch-time today?"

   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XVII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:

     “Girls like Phyllis Mills are an open book to me. For four years I was, if you remember, the proprietor and editress of a weekly paper for women.” She was alluding to the periodical entitled Milady's Boudoir […]

同意語

• editrix

アナグラム

• desirest, desister, diesters, reedists, resisted, sistered