English
pythoness
see also: Pythoness
Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Pythoness#English|Pythoness
  2. A female soothsayer
Translations
  • Russian: прорица́тельница
Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

  1. A female python.
    • 1862, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 56,
      On the fifteenth of January, it was discovered that the pythoness had excluded rather more than a hundred dirty-white, leathery-looking eggs.
Pythoness
Noun

pythoness (plural pythonesses)

  1. (history) The priestess of the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
    • 1857, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Information for the People,‎
      The unconnected words which the Pythoness screamed out in her madness were arranged into sentences by the attendant priests, who could easily place them in such an order, and fill up the breaks in such a way, as to make them express whatever was most suitable to the interests of the shrine, which was the main object.
Synonyms Translations
  • French: pythie
  • Russian: пи́фия


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