Skip to main content
EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

canoness

/kan-uh-nis/US // ˈkæn ə nɪs //UK // (ˈkænənɪs) //

女教士,女教员,女教官,女律师

Related Words

sister妹妹,姐姐,姐妹,姊妹vestal圣母玛利亚,马斯特尔,圣母院,圣母玛利亚人anchorite抛锚者,锚定者,锚泊者,碇泊者prioress女祭司,女教士,女牧师,女教父postulant后进生,后学者,后生,后补人员abbess女修道士,女修道院院长,女修道院长,女修道者mother superior母上大人,母后,母校,院长

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a member of a Christian community of women living under a rule but not under a vow.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as innun
Synonyms
sister妹妹,姐姐,姐妹,姊妹abbess女修道士,女修道院院长,女修道院长,女修道者anchorite抛锚者,锚定者,锚泊者,碇泊者postulant后进生,后学者,后生,后补人员prioress女祭司,女教士,女牧师,女教父vestal圣母玛利亚,马斯特尔,圣母院,圣母玛利亚人mother superior母上大人,母后,母校,院长religious woman女教徒,虔诚的女人,信徒妇女,虔诚的女教徒

Examples

  • Very often was the Canoness constrained to absorb herself in her little illuminated prayer-book.

  • The Canoness he descried escaping, unseen by them, with the aid of a gardener, across the pond into the park.

  • She was made a canoness of the aristocratic order of St. Theresa, of which the Queen was the head.

  • All the voices, the voice of the merciful canoness excepted, demand with Countess Ursine, "Justice and vengeance!"

  • And a Parisian market-woman spoke better French than a German canoness with sixty-four ancestors.

Level 3Browse all words →