Word Meanings - ELECTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The wife or widow of an elector in the old German empire. Burke.

Related words: (words related to ELECTRESS)

• GERMAN
  Nearly related; closely akin. Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion. Shak. Brother german. See Brother german. -- Cousins german. See the Note under Cousin. (more info) full, own ;
• GERMANIC
  1. Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy. 2. Teutonic.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• EMPIRE STATE
  New York; -- a nickname alluding to its size and wealth.
• EMPIRE STATE OF THE WEST
  Missouri; -- a nickname.
• GERMANISM
  1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
• GERMANE
  Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. must be germane. Barclay .
• EMPIRE STATE OF THE SOUTH
  Georgia; -- a nickname.
• WIDOW-WAIL
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
• WIDOWLY
  Becoming or like a widow.
• WIDOW BIRD
  See BIRD
• ELECTORESS
  An electress. Bp. Burnet.
• ELECTORSHIP
  The office or status of an elector.
• EMPIRE
  1. Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion. "The empire of the sea." Shak. Over hell extend His empire, and with iron scepter rule. Milton. 2. The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion
• ELECTORALITY
  The territory or dignity of an elector; electorate. Sir H. Wotton.
• GERMANIZE
  To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
• WIDOWER
  A man who has lost his wife by death, and has not married again. Shak.
• WIDOW
  1. To reduce to the condition of a widow; to bereave of a husband; -- rarely used except in the past participle. Though in thus city he Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. 2. To deprive of one who
• DOGGERMAN
  A sailor belonging to a dogger.
• BROTHER GERMAN
  A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.
• INDO-GERMANIC
  1. Same as Aryan, and Indo-European. 2. Pertaining to or denoting the Teutonic family of languages as related to the Sanskrit, or derived from the ancient Aryan language.