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    A prioress is the woman in charge of a — a religious house, usually for nuns, smaller than an abbey. She is the woman equivalent of a prior. The word belongs to church life and to old stories; you will not hear it about a modern office boss. An runs an abbey, which is typically a bigger house; a prioress runs a . Though actually, in real church history the jobs can sit close together, and English class often meets the word through Chaucer's Prioress — a nun in a story, not a word for everyday Taiwan.

    女修道院院長（小修院 priory 的女院長，有別於大修院的 abbess）

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組成From Middle English (prioresse and other spellings), from Medieval Latin priōrissa and Old French prioresse; prior + -ess.

同家族的字

  • priora prioress is the woman equivalent of a prior
  • priorythe religious house she is in charge of

原始詞典資料1 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。

prioressnoun

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    A nun in charge of a priory (usually lower in rank than an abbess); mother superior.

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。