countess
(noun) female equivalent of a count or earl
Source: WordNet® 3.1
countess (plural countesses)
The wife of a count or earl.
A woman holding the rank of count or earl in her own right; a female holder of an earldom.
(the wife of an earl, a female holder of an earldom): earless (nonstandard)
• Scoutens, contuses
Countess (plural Countesses)
Alternative letter-case form of countess
• Scoutens, contuses
Source: Wiktionary
Count"ess (kount"s), n.; pl. Countesses (-. Etym: [F. comtesse. See Count a nobleman.]
Definition: The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
6 January 2025
(adverb) (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation; “the child was born prematurely”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
