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What (who) is mistress - definition
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Mistresses; Mistress (disambiguation); Mistresses (TV series); Mistress (film); Mistress (song)
mistress
¦ noun
1. a woman in a position of authority or control.
Brit. a female schoolteacher.
the female owner of a dog, cat, etc.
archaic a female head of a household.
2. a woman skilled in a particular subject or activity: a mistress of the sound bite.
3. a woman (other than the man's wife) who is having a sexual relationship with a married man.
archaic or literary a woman loved and courted by a man.
4. (Mistress) archaic or dialect Mrs.
Origin
ME: from OFr. maistresse, from maistre 'master'.
mistress
n.
1.
Female head, female sovereign, governess.
2.
Instructress, female teacher, dame, governess.
3.
Sweetheart, flame.
4.
Concubine, paramour.
5.
Goodwife, matron, madam.
mistress
(mistresses)
1.
A married man's mistress is a woman who is not his wife and with whom he is having a sexual relationship. (OLD-FASHIONED)
She was his mistress for three years...
N-COUNT: usu with poss
2.
A dog's mistress is the woman or girl who owns it.
The huge wolfhound danced in circles around his mistress.
N-COUNT: usu poss N
Wikipedia
Mistress
Mistress is the feminine form of the English word "master" (master + -ess) and may refer to:
Examples of use of mistress
1. And I attended his second wedding as his only mistress.
2. Actress Cassandra Peterson ("Elvira, Mistress of the Dark") is 56.
3. My mother married a man much older than her who had an older mistress before the wedding and maintained the mistress during the marriage.
4. According to Meyers, he raped his last mistress, Jeanne Hebuterne.
5. "My great–grandmother was your great–great–grandfather‘s mistress.