abbess [
'æbis]
n. 女修道院院长
- Abbess Julia: You're a millionairess!
朱莉亚:你是一个女百万富翁! - Irish abbess; a patron saint of Ireland.
爱尔兰女修道院院长;爱尔兰守护神。 - Franlein Maria, I don't know how much the Mother Abbess has told you?
玛丽亚小姐,我不知道院长嬷嬷都跟你说了些什么?
abbess[ noun ]
the superior of a group of nuns
<noun.person>
Abbess \Ab"bess\ ([a^]b"b[e^]s), n. [OF. abaesse, abeesse, F.
abbesse, L. abbatissa, fem. of abbas, abbatis, abbot. See
{Abbot}.]
A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of
nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the
abbots have over the monks. See {Abbey}.
- She is sent by the kindly abbess to become governess to the seven children of a recently widowed naval captain whose schloss, her spacious new place of work, is overshadowed by the mountains on the Austrian-Swiss border.