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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lioness
noun
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▪ Before him lay the bloodstained shreds of the cloak and clear in the dust were the tracks of the lioness.
▪ Both Master and Mistress of Animals are shown between pairs of attendant animals or walking accompanied by a lion or lioness.
▪ But of a sudden she saw by the light of the moon a lioness.
▪ I once watched a lioness hunting a zebra.
▪ Soon one lioness is close enough to a zebra to attack.
▪ The hunt starts with the lionesses hunting as a group for their prey.
▪ Thisbe, although terrified of the lioness, was still more afraid to fail her lover.
▪ When Skalsky was on her game, she was a lioness.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lioness

Lioness \Li"on*ess\ (l[imac]"[u^]n*[e^]s), n. [OF. lionesse.] (Zo["o]l.) A female lion.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lioness

c.1300, leoness, from lion + -ess.

Wiktionary
lioness

n. a female lion

WordNet
lioness

n. a female lion

Wikipedia
Lioness

Lioness(es) may refer to:

  • A female lion
  • The Lioness (novel), a Dragonlance novel by Nancy Varian Berberick
  • USS Lioness (1857), a steam ram
  • Lioness Asuka, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Millwall Lionesses L.F.C., an English women's football club
  • Lioness (film), a documentary about the American servicewomen in Iraq known as Team Lioness

In music:

  • Lioness (band), a Canadian indie rock band
    • Lioness (EP), an EP by the band
  • The Lioness (album), an album by Songs: Ohia, or the title song
  • Lioness: Hidden Treasures, a 2011 posthumous compilation album by Amy Winehouse
  • Lioness Records, a British record label
Lioness (band)

Lioness is a Canadian indie rock dance band formed in January 2007 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Lioness (EP)

Lioness is the self-titled EP and first release from Canadian indie rock band Lioness. It was released on October 21, 2008 in Canada by New Romantic Music.

Lioness (film)

Lioness is a 2008 documentary film directed by Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers about the first members of Team Lioness.

Usage examples of "lioness".

A multitude of whelps came forth from the lair of this barbaric lioness, in three cyuls, as they call them, that is, in there ships of war, with their sails wafted by the wind and with omens and prophecies favourable, for it was foretold by a certain soothsayer among them, that they should occupy the country to which they were sailing three hundred years, and half of that time, a hundred and fifty years, should plunder and despoil the same.

Sorais herself directing the movement, as fearless as a lioness heading the main attack.

In 1847 or 1848 a lioness was killed by a native shikari in the Dumoh district.

Celestials have implanted maternal love in the breast of the lioness, of the typhonic river-horse of the Nile.

I have before alluded, were noticed in the skin of the lioness shot at Dumoh in 1847.

Their voices rose loud and clear in the silence of the amphitheatre, and there was neither pause nor waver in the tone as the entrance to one of the cages at the other end of the arena was opened, and a lion and a lioness appeared.

Her demeanor instantly changed from beguiled doe to a fierce lioness protecting her mate.

Self-mutilation is seen in the lower animals, and Kennedy, in mentioning the case of a hydrocephalic child who ate off its entire under lip, speaks also of a dog, of cats, and of a lioness who ate off their tails.

Sir John Hailey in the face left exposed by his visorless bascinet, wrenching off both helmet and head and flinging the blood-spouting body back down onto the heaving deck of the sloop Lioness.

Abu Batn, as, fighting like a lioness indeed, La sought to defend herself.

He knew she had the heart of a lioness and had almost run Drumfire down over the last half mile of the Christmas racing.

It was with difficulty that Jim coaxed Drumfire back to where Bakkat stood beside the dead lioness.

The carcass of the lioness, half disembowelled, her reeking guts hanging out of the cavity, slithered after him and Drumfire could stand it no longer.

Lionesses and she-cheetahs, leopards sleek of flank and smilodons long of tooth.

As soon as he appeared, the lionesses gave way, and only after he gorged did the females take their share.