American English pronunciation
How to pronounce mistress
IPA transcription: ['mɪstɹəs]
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Noun
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an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
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a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
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a woman master who directs the work of others
Usage examples
- Her daughter, Anna Margaretta Brett, was a mistress of George the First.
- Tala is the mistress of her own part of Hell.
- He is also cheating on his wife with a much younger mistress, Nancy Hayes.
- Professor Oldman is seduced and killed by the ghost of Hugh's mistress.
- ‘To hear you, people might think you were the mistress!’ she cried.
- The school's headteacher may be a headmaster or a headmistress
- Taking her as his mistress, he set her up in a fashionable residence.
- When asked to identify the mistress, she points at Kira.
- She was a mistress of Physcon's and was among his concubines.
- Twenty years later, she has become the mistress of a criminal.