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A lioness is a female lion. In a wild group, the lionesses usually do most of the hunting; the male lion is the one people notice first because of his mane. The home meaning is always the animal. People sometimes stretch it a little for a fierce, protective woman — a mother standing up for her children, or a player who goes at the game with that kind of fire — but that is extra colour, not a separate dictionary life. The word is ordinary and clear; you meet it in nature films, zoos, and stories.
母獅
組成From Middle English leonesse, lyonesse, from Old French leonesse, lionesse; equivalent to lion + -ess (the old ending that marks a female).
同家族的字
- lionthe base word; lioness is the female
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Lionessnoun
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesA player for England women's national football team
lionessnoun/ˈlaɪ.ə.nɪs/
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A female lion (animal).
- Residents on the south-western outskirts of Berlin are being urged to stay indoors after overnight sightings of a “loose, dangerous animal”, suspected to be an escaped lioness.
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A female lion (famous person regarded with interest and curiosity).
- The stories were a tremendous success; she was one of the leading lionesses of London literary society.
- The Middlesbrough Labour MP, Stuart Bell, a political and personal friend, said: "Mo was a lioness both in terms of the Labour party and politics nationally. She cut to the quick with any issue and proved herself a stateswoman of the highest order when seeking to negotiate the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement.
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obsoleteA female visitor to a student at Oxford, especially during commemoration week.
- When "lionesses" visiting Oxford for the gay doings of commemoration week spend a morning at Merton, they should look out for Antony Wood's mural tablet in the chapel, […]
- "Now, boys, keep your eyes open, there must be plenty of lionesses about;" and thus warned, the whole load, including the cornopean player, were on the look-out for lady visitors, profanely called lionesses, all the way up the street.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。