About The Word Mistress
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Mistress
Mistress Definition And Meaning |
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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. |
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