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# ogress

«ogress» in Mova's school dictionary: **a female ogre, a huge, frightening giantess in stories…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ogress, ogresses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An ogress is a female ogre, a huge, frightening giantess in stories who eats people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogress/#m1)

2) An ogress is a fierce or cruel woman, as a joke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogress/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales the ogress is the monstrous woman who threatens the hero, and must be outwitted

### examples

- «Yes, I will,» replied the ogress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogress/#x1)
- The ogress guarded the castle gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogress/#x2)
- The ogress hid the ring in her stomach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/ogress/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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