(n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.
Example Sentences:
(1) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(2) Rivett was found bludgeoned to death with a lead pipe at the countess’s home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street on the evening of 7 November 1974.
(3) The guests included the Duke of Gloucester; Sophie, countess of Wessex; and the Duke of Norfolk, whose responsibilities include royal funerals.
(4) The Queen arrived at the chapel with the Duke of Edinburgh, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Prince Edward , the Countess of Wessex and their children also attended the service.
(5) As we speak the final 10 days of production are under way, meaning farewell to the show’s trump card, Highclere Castle, home of real-life aristocrats, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon.
(6) One of the blaggers who regularly worked for him, John Gunning, was responsible for obtaining details of bank accounts belonging to Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, which were then sold to the Sunday Mirror.
(7) She had nothing like the public profile of previous victims such as the Duchess of York, the Countess of Wessex or the former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson.
(8) According to close associates of Rees, he also targeted: • Jack Straw when he was home secretary, Peter Mandelson when he was trade secretary and Blair's media adviser Alastair Campbell; • Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, all of whom are said to have had their bank accounts penetrated, and Kate Middleton when she was Prince William's girlfriend; • The former commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir John Stevens, and the current assistant commissioner, John Yates , who later supervised the failed phone-hacking inquiry for 19 months; • The governor and deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose mortgage account details were obtained and sold.
(9) Thank you,” replied Dame Disaster, looking only moderately surprised not to have been made a countess for her contribution to public life.
(10) 2001: new plans are made for a £65m Australian-designed Denton Corker Marshall visitor centre, east of the stones at Countess roundabout.
(11) But Lord Byron was, perhaps, the most direct of them all: “We of the craft are all crazy,” he told the Countess of Blessington, casting a wary eye over his fellow poets.
(12) The story of the Grantham family has reached 1924, and, according to Mrs Hughes, “Downton is catching up with the times we live in.” “That is exactly what I’m afraid of,” replies Carson, suggesting yet more resistance to impending modernity – which, of course, means plenty of opportunity for baffled zingers from the Dowager Countess.
(13) He blamed the errors on his busy schedule: when he finished his thesis in 2006, he was juggling his duties as an MP and raising two daughters with his TV presenter wife, the equally blue-blooded Countess Stephanie von Bismarck.
(14) The playwright Gregory Murphy wrote The Countess, which dealt with the same affair and appeared successfully on Broadway in 1999 and subsequently in the West End in London.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen with her five great-grandchildren and two youngest grandchildren: James, Viscount Severn (L), eight, and Lady Louise (2nd L), 12, the children of the Earl and Countess of Wessex; Mia Tindall (holding the Queen’s handbag), two, daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall; Savannah (3rd R), five, and Isla Phillips (R), three, daughters of Peter and Autumn Phillips; Prince George (2nd R), two, and, in the Queen’s arms, Princess Charlotte (11 months), children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
(16) The countess was set up by the News of the World at the Dorchester hotel, where she had gone to secure a PR contract with a Saudi prince.
(17) The palace also provided details of an eclectic music programme, courtesy of the Countess of Wessex’s String Orchestra, which ranged from Robert Farnon’s The Westminster Waltz, through to Irish and Chinese folk songs and the Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby.
(18) Its isolation no doubt attracted the Roman countess and her lewd husband who held lavish sex parties on the island 40 years ago.
(19) Perhaps Amanda Feilding , Countess of Wemyss and March, can explain it to me.
(20) I am sure the countess is right that the move would bring in revenue.
Countless
Definition:
(a.) Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
(2) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
(3) According to Newman, with whom Hislop has written TV series, a film and radio programmes, as well as countless jokes for Private Eye, his fogeyism is reflected in his attitude to sex.
(4) She had already passed the test: she made countless appearances between 2 February and 14 May, while her treatment was underway, and no one suspected a thing!
(5) Trevor Sinclair and Frédéric Kanouté scored, Tomas Repka gave away a penalty and Jermain Defoe missed countless chances.
(6) And there are countless white Britons who are unaware of the histories that bind us all together.
(7) This is a pattern of confusion, or deliberate deception, repeated in countless cases of missing persons who were later tracked down to Bagram.
(8) Legislators, third parties, physicians, and patients alike have spent countless hours in recent years searching for a way to contain rising medical costs.
(9) The text offers countless more examples in the same vein.
(10) Every month they delay its introduction, carmakers add to the 400,000 premature deaths, and countless respiratory, cardiac and other illnesses that result from air pollution in Europe.
(11) Yet he seems to have not just used his plane, but travelled with him on countless occasions and stayed on his luxury yacht.
(12) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
(13) The cytoplasm of the photoreceptor cells contains countless small Golgi fields, mitochondria, microtubules, multivesicular and multilamellar bodies.
(14) That stunner set the tone for a first round which did not follow the script that had been set by the countless mock drafts leading up to Thursday night.
(15) The umpteenth tragedy involving African migrants off the tiny island of Lampedusa could and should have been prevented, like the countless other deaths that have occurred over the last years in those waters.
(16) This man’s anguish and his love for his children pour out of your image and it is [a] look that I saw in the faces of countless people as we took them from the boats.” Working on deadline, I lost track of the family.
(17) 4.01pm BST Former GOP congressman and TV host Joe Scarborough lays into the Romney campaign in an op-ed for Politico : How can it be that this man who turned around countless businesses, saved the 2002 Olympics and ran Democratic Massachusetts like a pro be the head of such a disastrous campaign?
(18) Anti-Trump protesters to descend on NBC headquarters over SNL appearance Read more This weekend, however, the latest leg of the tour has countless Latino organizations and their allies declaring that NBC’s Trump hypocrisy will no longer be tolerated.
(19) The result is the emasculation not just of Scotland , but of Newcastle, Oldham, the Midlands, and countless other places not featured on the Circle line.
(20) Countless veterans survived the war but paid the price by leaving it maimed, mutilated and disfigured.