3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mistress \Mis"tress\, v. i.
To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. [Obs.] --Donne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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
The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter!
To be her mistress' mistress! --Shak.
2. A woman well skilled in anything or having the mastery
over it
A letter desires all young wives to make themselves
mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. --Addison.
3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has
command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
[Poetic] --Clarendon.
4. A woman filling the place but without the rights, of a
wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts
habitually. --Spectator.
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woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the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.
Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul). --Cowper.
6. A married woman; a wife. [Scot.]
Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled
to witness the event of this memorable evening.
--Sir W.
Scott.
7. The old name of the jack at bowls. --Beau. & Fl
{To be one's own mistress}, to be exempt from control by
another person.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
mistress
n 1: a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship
with a man [syn: {kept woman}, {fancy woman}]
2: a woman schoolteacher [syn: {schoolmarm}, {schoolmistress}]
3: a woman master who directs the work of others
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