Usually means: Noblewoman ranking below a princess.
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  1. duchess: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. duchess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. duchess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. duchess: Collins English Dictionary
  5. duchess: Vocabulary.com
  6. Duchess, duchess: Wordnik
  7. duchess: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Duchess, duchess: Wiktionary
  9. duchess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. duchess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. duchess: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Duchess, duchess: Dictionary.com
  13. duchess: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. duchess: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Duchess (Genesis song), Duchess (The Stranglers song), Duchess (disambiguation), Duchess (restaurant), Duchess (solitaire), Duchess, The Duchess (film), The Duchess (horse), The Duchess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Duchess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. duchess: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. duchess: Rhymezone
  19. Duchess: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. duchess: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Duchess: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. duchess: Free Dictionary
  23. duchess: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. duchess: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. duchess: Legal dictionary

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  1. duchess: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. duchess, duchess, duchess, duchess: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. duchess: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. duchess: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See duchessing as well.)

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noun:  The wife or widow of a duke.
noun:  The female ruler of a duchy.
verb:  (Australia, informal) to court or curry favour for political or business advantage; to flatter obsequiously.
noun:  A village in Alberta, Canada.

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