Complete Definition of "countess"

English

Pronunciation
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Noun
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  1. The wife of a count or earl, or the title used by a women who holds the title in her own right.
  2. The title used by a female who holds an earldom in her own right.

#: Elizabeth Millicent Leveson-Gower is 24th Countess of Sutherland; her son will be the 25th Earl.

Translations

Breton: kontez f -ed p
Danish: grevinde c
Dutch: gravin f
Finnish: kreivitär
French: comtesse f
German: Gräfin f
Hebrew: ר��נת (rozenet) f
Hungarian: grófn�
Icelandic: greifafrú f, greifynja f, jarlsfrú f
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Italian: contessa f
Latin: comitessa f, cometissa f, cometessa f, comitissa f
Russian: г�а�ин� (grafín'a) f
Scottish Gaelic: ban-iarla f
Slovene: grofica f
Spanish: condesa f

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