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Image:Anna Amalie.jpg|thumb|right|The Duchess Anna Amalia von Weimar (1795).

English

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈdʌ.tʃəs/

Noun

The female ruler of a duchy.
The female spouse or widow of a duke.

Translations

Breton: dugez
Czech: vévodkyně
Dutch: hertogin
Finnish: herttuatar
French: duchesse
German: Herzogin
Hungarian: hercegnő
Icelandic: hertogaynja

Latin: dux
Lithuanian: hercogienė (wife of duke); hercogė (sovereign female ruler of duchy)
Russian: герцогиня
Slovene: vojvodinja
Spanish: duquesa
Swedish: hertiginna

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Duchess \Duch"ess\, n. [F. duchesse, fr. duc duke.]
The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has the
sovereignty of a duchy in her own right.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet duchess
n : the wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own
right