Matronly

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  • adj. In the capacity of a matron; serving as a housekeeper or head nurse.
  • adj. Exuding the authority, wisdom, power, and intelligence of an experienced woman.
  • adj. Having the appearance of a mature woman, often of larger physical stature and somewhat unkempt or dowdy.
  • ad. In the manner of a matron.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Advanced in years; elderly.
  • adj. Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Like a matron; characteristic of or suitable to a matron; elderly; ripe in years.
  • In a manner becoming a matron.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. befitting or characteristic of a fully mature woman
  • Equivalent
    feminine    womanly   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    elderly    grave    sedate    wifely   
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