Mistress Definition

mĭstrĭs
mistresses
noun
mistresses
A woman who rules others or has control, authority, or power over something.
Webster's New World
A woman very skilled and able in some work, profession, science, art, etc.
Webster's New World
A woman who is in a sexual relationship with, and typically is financially supported by, a man without being married to him.
Webster's New World
A woman who owns or keeps an animal.
A cat sitting in its mistress's lap.
American Heritage
A woman who owns a slave.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Mistress

Noun

Singular:
mistress
Plural:
mistresses

Origin of Mistress

  • Middle English maistresse from Old French feminine of maistre master from Latin magister master

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English and Old French maistresse (French: maîtresse), feminine of maistre (“master").

    From Wiktionary

Mistress Sentence Examples

  • He was accompanied throughout his journey by his mistress, the Finnish girl Afrosina.

  • I am the housekeeper, not his mistress.

  • Some of the peasants said that these new arrivals were Russians and might take it amiss that the mistress was being detained.

  • In the Phigalian legend, no mention is made of the horse Areion, but only of the daughter, who is called Despoina (mistress), a title common to all divinities connected with the under-world.

  • He left his wife for a mistress, Elizabeth Holland, was in discord with his family, and lived to see his two nieces, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, and his son Surrey, the fiery-tempered poet, go in turn to the block.

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Words Starting With

MMIMIS

Words Ending With

SSSESS

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Words Starting With M and Ending With S

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