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Definition of "mayoress" [may•or•ess]

  • A woman serving as the head of government of a city, town, borough, or municipal corporation. See Usage Note at -ess. (noun)
  • The wife of a mayor. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "mayoress" in a sentence
  • "For at Rome it is enough that words should change, and not deeds, just as if I said, a procuress was to be called a mayoress, yet may remain as good as she is now."
  • "The mayoress was a thin, elderly country woman with a nod for everyone; her big Normandy cap fitted close round her thin face, making her head, with its round, astonished-looking eyes, look like a white-tufted fowl's, and she ate in little jerks as if she were pecking at her plate."
  • "When he became mayor of his beloved Rochdale, he enjoyed making his mum, Eva, his mayoress, when she was still employed as a town hall cleaner."