championess

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noun

A female champion.

OriginEnglish champion ← Middle English champioun ← Old French champiun →
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Meanings

nounchampioness (plural championesses)

plural championesses

  1. archaicA female champion.

    Then laid the noble Championesse strong hond / Upon th'enchaunter which had her distrest / So sore, and with foule outrages opprest.

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kh₂em-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kh₂ém-po-s
  3. Proto-Italic*kampos
  4. Latincampus
  5. Proto-West Germanic*kamp
  6. Proto-West Germanic*kampijan
  7. Frankish*kampijō
  8. Medieval Latincampiō
  9. Old Frenchchampiun
  10. Middle Englishchampioun
  11. Englishchampion
  12. Englishchampioness

From champion + -ess.

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APA

championess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/championess

MLA

“championess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/championess. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “championess,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/championess.

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