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1. (n.) mistress
a woman who has authority, esp. the female head of a household or the like.
2. mistress
a woman employing servants or attendants.
3. mistress
a female owner of an animal, or formerly, a slave.
4. mistress
a woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a usu. married man who provides her with financial support.
5. mistress
a woman who has possession or control of something:
mistress of a great fortune.
6. mistress
a woman who is skilled in an occupation or art.
7. mistress
(sometimes cap.) something regarded as feminine that has control or supremacy:
England, mistress of the seas.
8. mistress
(cap.) (formerly) a term of address corresponding to Mrs., Miss, or Ms.
9. mistress
Brit. a female schoolteacher.
10. mistress
Archaic. sweetheart.
Etymology: (1275–1325; < MF, OF, =maistre (< L
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| Definition of 'Mistress' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) mistress, kept woman, fancy woman
an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
2. (noun) schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistress
a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
3. (noun) mistress
a woman master who directs the work of others
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| Definition of 'Mistress' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Mistress
a woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc
2. (noun) Mistress
a woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it
3. (noun) Mistress
a woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart
4. (noun) Mistress
a woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually
5. (noun) Mistress
a title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman
6. (noun) Mistress
a married woman; a wife
7. (noun) Mistress
the old name of the jack at bowls
8. (verb) Mistress
to wait upon a mistress; to be courting
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The Roycroft Dictionary |
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Mistress
1. A female who has rights, as distinguished from a married woman, who has duties.
2. One whose respect and love some married men may hold without the non-transferable license in the bottom of a trunk.
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Sense: a woman who is the lover of a man to whom she is not married.
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 Afrikaans: minnares |
 Arabic: عَشيقَه |
 Bulgarian: любовница |
 Brazilian: amante |
 Czech: milenka |
 German: die Geliebte |
 Danish: mistress |
 Greek: ερωμένη |
 Spanish: amante |
 Estonian: armuke |
 Farsi: معشوقه |
 Finnish: rakastajatar |
 French: maîtresse |
 Hebrew: פִּילֶגֶש |
 Hindi: रखैल |
 Croatian: ljubavnica |
 Hungarian: szerető |
 Indonesian: wanita simpanan |
 Icelandic: ástkona, hjákona |
 Italian: amante |
 Japanese: 情婦 |
 Korean: 연인, 애인 |
 Lithuanian: meilužė |
 Latvian: mīļākā |
 Malay: perempuan simpanan |
 Dutch: maitresse |
 Norwegian: elskerinne |
 Polish: kochanka |
 Persian: معشوقه |
 Pashto: معشوقه |
 Portuguese: amante |
 Romanian: amantă |
 Russian: любовница |
 Slovak: milenka |
 Slovenian: ljubica |
 Serbian: ljubavnica |
 Swedish: älskarinna |
 Thai: ภรรยาลับ |
 Turkish: metres |
 Taiwanese: 情婦 |
 Ukrainian: коханка |
 Urdu: داشتہ، رکھیل |
 Vietnamese: tình nhân |
 Chinese: 情妇 |
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