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governess::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | instructor, teacher |
Examples of governess
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She has taken a job as a governess following a difficult childhood as an orphan.
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A British governess gets a taste of the glamorous life with an American actress.
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A Victorian governess fears a boy and girl have been possessed by a dead couple.
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Meanwhile, Eliza becomes the governess of a widowers'two children in Versailles.
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Five years later, Lehzen became governess to their only child, Princess Victoria.
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Eliza was educated at home, by her governess and by the tutors of her brothers.
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Georgann Wallace also has an eccentric comic presence as the governess Miss Prism.
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Meanwhile, there's a romance between Barnabas and Victoria, the new governess.
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The family were reasonably wealthy and employed a governess to teach the children.
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- A woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home)
- A governess is a woman employed to teach and train children in a private household. In contrast to a nanny (formerly called a nurse) or a babysitter, she concentrates on teaching children, not their physical needs. Her charges are of school age, not babies.
- The Governess is a 1998 British period drama film written and directed by Sandra Goldbacher. The screenplay focuses on a young Jewish woman of Sephardic background, who reinvents herself as a gentile governess when she is forced to find work to support her family.
- A woman paid to educate children in their own home; To work as governess; to educate children in their own home
- A female teacher employed in a private household.
- A nanny and teacher of small children.
