Get to know Governess better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like teacher or instructor.
Governess meaning
- A woman paid to educate children in their own home.
- A female governor.
- The wife of a governor.
Synonyms of Governess
Using Governess
- The main meaning on this page is: A woman paid to educate children in their own home. | A female governor. | The wife of a governor.
- Useful related words include: teacher, instructor.
- In the example corpus, governess often appears in combinations such as: the governess, governess and, as governess.
Context around Governess
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Governess
- In this selection, "governess" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, new, young, french, named, position and music stand out and add context to how "governess" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a french governess and a and a german governess he became. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "governess" sits close to words such as aachen, abayomi and abbots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with governess
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Four years later, Maria Theresa's governess, Marie Karoline von Fuchs-Mollard, died. (13 words)
Garrett despised her governess and sought to outwit the teacher in the classroom. (13 words)
He was tutored at home by a governess, Beatrice Mackintosh, and his mother. (13 words)
Rebecca Jessel (Tahirah Sharif) is a young Black woman who wants to be a barrister, but due to the sexism and sexual harassment many of her female peers have faced, she takes this governess position as a way of circumventing all of that. (43 words)
What they won’t learn is the deep-rooted Catholic faith and culture that lay behind the winning combination of romance, motherless children, a new governess, music and political danger that made up the essential features of the film itself. (40 words)
As things progress, there’s bonding with the kids, and an eventual romance between the governess and the widow, all the while fascism slowly becomes more noticeable throughout Austria as the beginning of World War II approaches. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.
According to the outlet’s description, Victorian Psycho “will follow a young, eccentric governess named Winifred Notty (Qualley) who arrives at the remote gothic manor known as Ensor House.
As things progress, there’s bonding with the kids, and an eventual romance between the governess and the widow, all the while fascism slowly becomes more noticeable throughout Austria as the beginning of World War II approaches.
Baldwin has assembled a top-notch cast including Julie Lea Goodwin and Sophie Salvesani, who will alternate in the role of the Governess, and Kanen Breen and Ben Rasheed sharing the role of ghostly Peter Quint.
Edwina who has been on the celebrity version of The Chase, the show’s sister programme, went up against The Governess then - this time she face all of them.
The plot concerns a young governess who has been hired by a wealthy family to watch over their two little children.
In her memoir, the real Maria wrote that during the time that she served as a tutor for one of the children (not as a governess as depicted) Georg fell in love with her.
Rebecca Jessel (Tahirah Sharif) is a young Black woman who wants to be a barrister, but due to the sexism and sexual harassment many of her female peers have faced, she takes this governess position as a way of circumventing all of that.
Victoria Pedretti's Dani Clayton is the new governess to two orphan children who inhabit the house along with a housekeeper.
The novel followed a young governess who finds out that the children she is caring for are being visited by two ghosts within the house.
What they won’t learn is the deep-rooted Catholic faith and culture that lay behind the winning combination of romance, motherless children, a new governess, music and political danger that made up the essential features of the film itself.
Anne, who is also know as The Governess, was diagnosed with the form of Autism in 2007, two years after she watched a TV programme about autism and realised she had all of the symptoms.
Anne, who is Governess on ITV’s The Chase, is so fed up with jungle life she pleaded with people not to vote for her.
After returning to private education under a German Jewish governess, Käthe Kübler, she passed the Oxford Local Examination with distinction at age thirteen.
Anne's aunt Lady Henrietta Hyde (the wife of Laurence Hyde ) was appointed as her new governess.
Churchill, aged seven, in 1881 Churchill's earliest exposure to education occurred in Dublin, where a governess tried teaching him reading, writing, and arithmetic (his first reading book was called 'Reading Without Tears').
Four years later, Maria Theresa's governess, Marie Karoline von Fuchs-Mollard, died.
From 1620 until Osman's death, a governess (daye hatun, lit. wet-nurse) was appointed as a stand-in valide, and she could not counterbalance the contriving of Mustafa I 's mother in the Old Palace.
Garrett despised her governess and sought to outwit the teacher in the classroom.
He was tutored at home by a governess, Beatrice Mackintosh, and his mother.
Common combinations with governess
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the governess 6×
- governess and 5×
- as governess 5×
- governess to 4×
- governess who 3×
- new governess 3×
- governess for 3×
- governess in 3×
- german governess 2×
- governess named 2×