abbess
英 [ˈæbes] 美 [ˈæbɪs]

n.

女修道院院长；

变形

复数：abbesses

英英释义

abbess[ 'æbes ]

• n.the superior of a group of nuns

  同义词：mother superiorprioress

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. At age 43 she became abbess of her community.
   43岁时她成为当地的女修道院院长。
2. Once upon a time， there was an abbess in a small abbey .
   很久以前，一个小修道院里有一个女修道院院长。

权威例句

The Abbess of Crewe
Heloise the Abbess: The Expansion of the Paraclete
Heloise the Abbess: The Expansion of the Paraclete
Power over past and future: Abbess Emma and the nunnery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses
Revising the Popish Plot: Frances Trollope's "The Abbess and Father Eustace"
Politics in the convent: The election of a fifteenth-century abbess
Gender and monastic autonomy in thirteenth-century Barcelona: abbess vs. bishop
The Occurrence of the Ordovician Conodont Periodon in the Abbess Island Conglomerate, Southeastern Alaska
Matters of Care and Control: Surveillance, Omniscience, and Narrative Power in The Abbess of Crewe and Loitering with Intent
Preserved ascomatal and other fungal structures on the remains of a ninth century Longobard abbess exhumed from a monastery in Pavia...