Crossword-Solution: GOVERNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Governess | n. | A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “GOVERNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Jane Eyre's calling. | 1 answer |
| Female tutor | 1 answer |
| FRAULEIN | 2 answers |
| Duenna | 4 answers |
| Mademoiselle | 6 answers |
| amah | 7 answers |
| chaperon | 8 answers |
| nana | 9 answers |
| A WOMAN ENTRUSTED WITH THE CARE AND SUPERVISION OF A CHILD | 11 answers |
| Nanny | 31 answers |
| POWERFUL person | 42 answers |
| influential person | 48 answers |
| Companion | 48 answers |
| mistress | 51 answers |
| VIGILANT person | 55 answers |
| Teaching material | 63 answers |
| Nursemaid | 64 answers |
| Guard | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GOVERNESS (5)
You see, Farmer Oak, she’s so good-looking, and an excellent scholar besides—she was going to be a governess once, you know, only she was too wild.
Sixteen years ago when my children were little creatures the governess was trying to hammer some primer histories into their heads.
What sort of a _ménage_ is it which pays double the market price for a governess but does not keep a horse, although six miles from the station? Odd, Watson—very odd!” “You will go down?” “No, my dear fellow, _you_ will go down.
Her mother had died too long ago for her to have more than an indistinct remembrance of her caresses; and her place had been supplied by an excellent woman as governess, who had fallen little short of a mother in affection.
Half in jest, half in earnest, she said to her old friend at parting, 'If your governess leaves you, keep the place open for me.' Mrs.
Quotes with GOVERNESS (3)
Cat doesn’t have to work. She’s a woman of independent means. I settled enough money on her to allow her the freedom to do anything she wished. She went to boarding school for four years, and stayed to teach for another two. Eventually she came to me and said she’d accepted a position as a governess for the Hathaway family. I believe you were in France with Win at the time. Cat went for the interview, Cam and Amelia liked her, Beatrix and Poppy clearly needed her, and no one …
The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I seldom could look upon an hour as entirely my own; since, when everything was left to the caprices of Miss Matilda and her sister, there could be no order or regularity. Whatever occupation I chose, when not actually busied about them or their concerns, I had, as it were, to keep my loins girded, my shoes on my feet, and my staff in my hand; for not to …
Mr. Brundy, you are no doubt as well acquainted with my circumstances as I am with yours, so let us not beat about the bush. I have a fondness for the finer things in life, and I suppose I always will. As a result, I am frightfully expensive to maintain. I have already bankrupted my father, and have no doubt I should do the same to you, should you be so foolhardy as to persist in the desire for such a union. Furthermore, I have a shrewish disposition and a sharp tongue. My fa…
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Appears in: NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1957–2006).