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# mayoress

«mayoress» in Mova's school dictionary: **the wife of a mayor, who often attends town events beside…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (mayoress, mayoresses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mayoress is the wife of a mayor, who often attends town events beside him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mayoress/#m1)

2) (old use) A mayoress can also be a woman who holds the office of mayor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mayoress/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a title for a woman of high standing in a town, often in tales about towns and their leaders

### examples

- The mayoress opened the autumn fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mayoress/#x1)
- The mayoress wore a gold chain at the feast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mayoress/#x2)
- Everyone bowed when the mayoress came in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mayoress/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mayoress» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mayoress/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.