Usually means: Female owner of a business.
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  1. proprietress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. proprietress: Merriam-Webster
  3. proprietress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. proprietress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. proprietress: Collins English Dictionary
  6. proprietress: Vocabulary.com
  7. proprietress: Wordnik
  8. proprietress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. proprietress: Wiktionary
  10. proprietress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. proprietress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. proprietress: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Proprietress, proprietress: Dictionary.com
  14. Proprietress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. proprietress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. proprietress: Rhymezone
  17. Proprietress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. proprietress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. proprietress: FreeDictionary.org
  20. proprietress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. proprietress: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proprietress: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (proprietress)

▸ noun:  (dated) A female proprietor.

Similar:
proprietrix, proprietoress, proprietess, owneress, possessoress, patronne, landlady, mistress, landperson, heritress, more...

Opposite:
proprietor, owner, landlord

Adjectives:
old, sole, new, fat, young, present, elderly, fair, former, friendly, aged

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Similar:
proprietrix, proprietoress, proprietess, owneress, possessoress, patronne, landlady, mistress, landperson, heritress, more...

Opposite:
proprietor, owner, landlord

Adjectives:
old, sole, new, fat, young, present, elderly, fair, former, friendly, aged



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