Word Meanings - MATRONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

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• MATRONAL
  Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• MATRON
  1. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a
• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• MARRIABLE
  Marriageable. Coleridge.
• MARRIER
  One who marries.
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• MATRONIZE
  1. To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson. 2. To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• MATRONLY
  1. Advanced in years; elderly. 2. Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
• MATRONYMIC
  See METRONYMIC
• GRAVEYARD
  A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• GRAVELESS
  Without a grave; unburied.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
  In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
• INGRAVE
  To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
• DAIRYWOMAN
  A woman who attends to a dairy.