archeress

English

WOTD – 5 December 2012, 5 December 2014

An archeress.

Etymology

From archer +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːtʃəɹɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

archeress (plural archeresses)

1. A female archer.
   • 1878, John Berwick Harwood, Helena, lady Harrogate, page 11:

     […] looking very much as they must have looked when Queen Elizabeth deigned to show her skill as an archeress, to the detriment of the dappled deer in the wide park beyond.

   • 1882, Catherine Parr Traill, Lost in the Backwoods:

     Catharine was a tolerable archeress with the long-bow, and the hut was now seldom without game of one kind or other.

Synonyms

• markswoman
• shootress

Translations

a female archer

• Armenian: նետաձգուհի (netajguhi)
• Dutch: boogschutster f
• Esperanto: pafarkistino
• Finnish: jousiampujatar
• French: archère (fr) f
• German: Bogenschützin (de) f
• Greek: τοξότρια (el) f (toxótria)

  Ancient: τοξότις f (toxótis)

• Irish: banshaighdeoir m, banbhoghdóir m
• Macedonian: стрелачка f (strelačka)
• Polish: łuczniczka (pl) f
• Portuguese: arqueira f
• Russian: лу́чница (ru) f (lúčnica)
• Spanish: arquera f
• Ukrainian: лу́чниця f (lúčnycja)

Anagrams

• searchers