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Warrior vs Warrioress - What's the difference?

warrior | warrioress |

As nouns the difference between warrior and warrioress

is that warrior is a person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant while warrioress is (rare) a female warrior.

warrior

English

Alternative forms

* warriour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia warrior)
  • A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
  • *
    • Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior ; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • (lb) A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.

    • Related terms

    * war

    Derived terms

    * bloody warrior * warriorhood

    References

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    warrioress

    English

    Noun

    (warrioresses)
  • (rare) A female warrior.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.7:
  • *:Eftsoones that warriouresse with haughty crest / Did forth issue all ready for the fight […].
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1879 , author= , title= Records of a Girlhood , page=162 , passage="[...] which furnished the battery just below our stand, and which, as soon as the unwieldy old warrioress had occupied the post of honor reserved for her in their midst, sent forth a martial acclaim of welcome that made the earth tremble under our feet, and resounded through the air, shivering, with the strong concussion, more than one pane of glass in the windows of Princess Street far below."}}