bureaucratess
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A female bureaucrat.
Example Sentences
- "I took a strangle hold on my nervous system and walked into his office on invitation from the pretty little bureaucratess who met me at the door."
- "Said a crying bureaucratess: "God was love.""
- "The two young volunteers, with their costumes of short red suits with white trim and matching red leotards, are gone; the burning bureaucratesses of the last jolly season have been asked to pitch in but, Roberts said, “I don’t have any commitment from them.”"
- "As junior bureaucrats and bureaucratesses in the game of U.S.G., the children delight in producing marvelously nebulous studies and reports, and carping at the official titles of university Deans."
- "You see, a frowning bureaucratess from Cambridge, one Rebecca Bowtell, was along for the ride."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *péh₂wr̥ Proto-Hellenic *pāwər Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr) Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Hellenic *-rós Ancient Greek -ρός (-rós) Ancient Greek πῠρρός (pŭrrhós)bor. Latin burrus Latin burra Old French *bure Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Old French burel French bureau Proto-Indo-European *kret-der. Ancient Greek κρᾰ́τος (krắtos) Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂ Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā) Ancient Greek -κρᾰτῐ́ᾱ (-krătĭ́ā)lbor. French -cratie French bureaucratie French bureaucratebor. English bureaucrat Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor. Late Latin -issader. Old French -essebor. Middle English -esse English -ess English bureaucratess From bureaucrat + -ess.