COUNTESSES Synonyms

• a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria

• a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron

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

• a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount

• a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor

• a woman of the peerage in Britain

• a polite name for any woman

• a woman of refinement

• the wife or widow of a marquis

• a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess

• nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count

• humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)

• a woman of the peerage in Britain

• a woman of the peerage in Britain

• a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)

• members of a governing board

• someone who rules during the absence or incapacity or minority of the country's monarch

• acting or functioning as a regent or ruler

• the wife or widow of a czar

• a wife or widow of a viscount

• a noblewoman holding the rank of viscount in her own right