Word of the Day – Virago

Virago (noun)

vi-ra-go

A woman of masculine strength, a warrior. More recently, a violent or bad tempered woman.

Old English (used only as the name given by Adam to Eve, following the Vulgate), from Latin ‘heroic woman, female warrior’, from vir ‘man’. The current sense dates from late Middle English.

Example sentences

“None of them would admit it, but all men feared the virago from the next valley.”