Meaning

2 senses
  1. (dated)A female colonel.

  2. (dated)The wife of a colonel.

Origin

From colonel + -ess.

From colonel + -ess.

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Forms

plural: colonelesses
Singularcoloneless
Pluralcolonelesses

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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