abbess
abbess 英 ['æbes] 美 ['æbɛs]
n. 女修道院院长；女庵主持
名词复数:abbesses
- An abbess is the head of a group of nuns. Typically, a woman has been a nun for many years before becoming an abbess.
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- n. 女修道院院长；女庵主持
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1. The superior of an abbey is called an abbess.
修道院的院长被称为女修道院院长。
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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。
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3. There may be someone on earth —a cloistered abbess, perhaps, or a Taliban soldier in a particularly remote post —who has yet to learn that High School Musical 3 opened last Friday.
大概只有隐居的女修道院长和遥远的海报上的塔利班士兵才不知道歌舞青春3在上周五上映了吧。
- abbess (n.) c. 1300, abbese, "female superior of a convent of nuns," from Old French abbesse (12c.), from Late Latin abbatissa (6c.), fem. of abbas (see abbot). Replaced earlier abbotess, from Old English abbodesse.
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