DUCHESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("duchess" is a kind of...):

Lady; noblewoman; peeress (a woman of the peerage in Britain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "duchess"):

grand duchess (the wife of a grand duke or a woman holding that rank in her own right)