A Topical Dictionary: Search for Mistress

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English

mistress

Noun

a woman who displaces a wife in the affections of a man.
a woman, other than his wife, with whom a married man has a continuing sexual relationship.

Synonyms

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Mistress \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.
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The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter!
To be her mistress' mistress! --Shak.
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2. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery
over it.
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A letter desires all young wives to make themselves
mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. --Addison.
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3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has
command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
[Poetic] --Clarendon.
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4. A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a
wife; a woman having an ongoing usually exclusive sexual
relationship with a man, who may provide her with
financial support in return; a concubine; a loose woman
with whom one consorts habitually; as, both his wife and
his mistress attended his funeral. --Spectator.
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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woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the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.
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Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul). --Cowper.
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6. A married woman; a wife. [Scot.]
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Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled
to witness the event of this memorable evening.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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7. The old name of the jack at bowls. --Beau. & Fl.
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To be one's own mistress, to be exempt from control by
another person.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Mistress \Mis"tress\, v. i.
To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. [Obs.] --Donne.
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WordNet mistress
n 1: an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital
sexual relationship with a man [syn: kept woman, {fancy
woman}]
2: a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
[syn: schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress]
3: a woman master who directs the work of others

Moby Dictionary
Frau , Fraulein , Miss , Mlle , Mme , Mmes , dame , dona , donna , lady ,
madam , madame , mademoiselle , mem-sahib , mesdames , senhora ,
senhorita , signora , signorina , vrouw

Moby Dictionary
Dulcinea , abbess , beneficiary , best girl , cestui , cestui que trust ,
cestui que use , chatelaine , concubine , dame , deedholder , dowager ,
doxy , dream girl , duenna , educatress , feoffee , feudatory ,
first lady , 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 , master , matriarch , matron , mesne , mesne lord ,
mother superior , odalisque , old lady , owner , paramour , playmate ,
proprietary , proprietor , proprietress , proprietrix , rentier ,
schooldame , schoolmarm , schoolmistress , squire , titleholder ,
tutoress , unofficial wife , woman

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