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View synonyms for tigress

tigress

[ tahy-gris ]

noun

  1. a female tiger.
  2. a woman resembling a tiger, as in fierceness or courage.


tigress

/ ˈtaɪɡrɪs /

noun

  1. a female tiger
  2. a fierce, cruel, or wildly passionate woman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tigress1

1605–15; earlier tigresse < French; tiger, -ess
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Example Sentences

I ask you now to play upon it; you refuse,  and she paced the room like a caged tigress.

Somehow the idea is associated in my mind with a wild tigress,—and I, too, must now look like that.

She glared at me as I entered the cell like a chained tigress.

Tess, instinct with potent life and rage, wheeled like a tawny tigress furiously upon Frederick and Teola.

She may have been a reincarnated tigress—in after years there was a man who always declared so—and then again she may not.

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