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mistress: [noun] a woman who has power, authority, or ownership: such as. the female head of a household. a woman who employs or supervises servants. a woman who is in charge of a school or other establishment. a woman of the Scottish nobility having a status comparable to that of a master.
Mistress definition: a woman who, most often secretly, has an ongoing sexual relationship with, and sometimes is financially supported by, someone who is openly married to, engaged to, or living with another person.
MISTRESS definition: 1. a woman who has control over or responsibility for someone or something: 2. a female school…. Learn more.
the mistress of the house; Lizzie, fetch your mistress her shawl. (old-fashioned) the female owner of a dog or other animal (old-fashioned) a woman who is in a position of authority or control, or who has a lot of skill in something. She wants to be mistress of her own affairs (= to organize her own life). She is the mistress of plain speech.
3. : a woman who has a sexual relationship with a married man. a married man who has/keeps a mistress. His wife suspected that the woman she'd seen with him was his mistress. 4. a chiefly British, old-fashioned : a female teacher : schoolmistress — see also headmistress. b Mistress — used as a title for the female head of certain British ...
mistress in American English. (ˈmɪstrɪs) noun. 1. a woman who has authority, control, or power, esp. the female head of a household, institution, or other establishment. 2. a woman employing, or in authority over, servants or attendants. 3. a female owner of an animal, or formerly, an enslaved person.
