About The Word Mistress
Learn about the word Mistress to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Mistress definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.
Mistress
Mistress Definition And Meaning |
---|
What's The Definition Of Mistress?
[n] a woman master who directs the work of others
[n] an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man [n] a woman schoolteacher Synonyms | Synonyms for Mistress: fancy woman | kept woman | schoolmarm | schoolmistress Related Terms | Find terms related to Mistress: abbess | beneficiary | best girl | cestui | cestui que trust | cestui que use | chatelaine | concubine | dame | deedholder | dona | donna | dowager | doxy | dream girl | duenna | Dulcinea | educatress | feoffee | feudatory | first lady | Frau | Fraulein | gill | girl | girl friend | goodwife | governess | great lady | headmistress | homemaker | householder | housewife | inamorata | instructress | jill | jo | kept mistress | kept woman | lady | lady love | laird | landlady | landlord | lass | lassie | lord | lover | madam | madame | mademoiselle | master | matriarch | matron | mem-sahib | mesdames | mesne | mesne lord | Miss | Mlle | Mme | Mmes | mother superior | odalisque | old lady | owner | paramour | playmate | proprietary | proprietor | proprietress | proprietrix | rentier | schooldame | schoolmarm | schoolmistress | senhora | senhorita | signora | signorina | squire | titleholder | tutoress | unofficial wife | vrouw | woman See Also | adult female | Braun | chatelaine | concubine | courtesan | Delilah | doxy | employer | Eva Braun | lover | odalisque | paramour | school teacher | schoolteacher | woman Mistress In Webster's Dictionary \Mis"tress\, n. [OE. maistress, OF. maistresse, F.
ma[^i]tresse, LL. magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of
magister. See {Master}, {Mister}, and cf. {Miss} a young
woman.]
1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who
exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a
family, a school, etc.
The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter!
To be her mistress' mistress! --Shak.
2. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery
over it.
A letter desires all young wives to make themselves
mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. --Addison.
3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has
command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
[Poetic] --Clarendon.
4. A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a
wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts
habitually. --Spectator.
5. A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a
woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the
contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an
unmarried, woman.
Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul). --Cowper.
6. A married woman; a wife. [Scot.]
Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled
to witness the event of this memorable evening.
--Sir W.
Scott.
7. The old name of the jack at bowls. --Beau. & Fl.
{To be one's own mistress}, to be exempt from control by
another person.
\Mis"tress\, v. i. To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. [Obs.] --Donne. |
More Crossword Puzzle Words
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
Cross Word Of The Day
- Roll over ‐ make a rolling motion or turn; "The dog…
- Arbutus unedo ‐ small evergreen European shrubby tree bearing many-seeded scarlet…
- Inflammatory bowel disease ‐ inflammation of…
- Holmes ‐ a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle [n] English…
- Roister ‐ engage in boisterous, drunken merry-making; "They were out carousing…
- Chicken broth ‐ a stock made…
- Pseudocolus ‐ a genus of fungi belonging to the family…
- Ulmus serotina ‐ autumn-flowering elm of southeastern…
- Nugatory ‐ of no real value; "a…
- Black cypress pine ‐ Australian tree with small flattened scales as leaves and numerous…