Definition of mistress in English:

mistress

noun ˈmɪstrəsˈmɪstrɪs

1A woman in a position of authority or control.
权威女子，能控制局面的女子
she is always mistress of the situation, coolly self-possessed
她总能控制局面，表现沉着镇静。
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite pleading and begging, the evil karaoke mistress would not budge.
- Once she recognizes the historical constitution of the plantation mistress, Peterkin elects to reproduce it through her own activities.
- Emancipation changed the nature of plantation mistresses' work but not the plantation's schedule.
- They helped organize the 1963 March on Washington and were master and mistress of ceremonies.
- At the end, the Chinese mistress of ceremonies slipped up by saying ‘goodbye’ in Japanese.
- The post mistress raises our flag in front of the post office.
- Wendy the glamorous quiz mistress indicated that there were three parts to the answer and to get the full points you needed to get all the parts right.
- Double congrats to the mistress of ceremonies for putting on such a great show.
Synonyms
doyenne, star, leading light, celebrity, big name, superstar, top dog, queen bee, prima donna, idol, heroine, favourite, darling
1. 1.1British with modifier A female schoolteacher who teaches a particular subject.
  〈主英〉（教某一门课的）女教师
  a Geography mistress
  女地理教师。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are others who fiddle about at the edges of things, such as the stranger's gang, the schoolmaster's mistress, a boy who comes for private lessons, the barber, the surgeon.
  I recall quarrelling with Mrs. Look, our dumpy discipline mistress, because I technically didn't break any rules, and she didn't allow me in.
  And of all the worst teachers, we had to be found by our discipline mistress, the strictest teacher in our whole school.
  The head mistress looked very warm and welcoming, although stern and strict too.
  The Headmaster and mistress watched the students excitedly, waiting for them to hug.
  Despite the frightful sound of it, this acronym does not in fact indicate some child in callipers, nor does it reference what used to be whispered about the preferred proclivities of my biology mistress at school.
  It was initiated, in part by Marta, Tomas's mistress and the local schoolteacher.
  In 1963 she became mathematics and science mistress at Danebank and remained here on part-time duties until 1974.
  It turned out their previous teacher had been a Miss Barwell from the Home Counties, a former elocution mistress who prided herself on her cut-glass vowels.
  This second post also carried with it a position of assistant mistress and Cartwright soon found that she was being diverted from teaching by the administration.
  Synonyms
  educator, tutor, instructor, pedagogue, schoolteacher, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, master, governess, educationalist, educationist
2. 1.2 A woman who is skilled in a particular subject or activity.
  女名家，女能手
  a mistress of the sound bite, she is famed for the acidity of her tongue
  她是录音采访节录名家，以尖酸刻薄出名。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Susan Swan is clearly the mistress of her material, and her narrative technique copes effortlessly with moving back and forth, between the journals of the past and the events of the present.
  Athill is the mistress of a cool, seemingly careless style.
  I am an amateur wardrobe mistress who has been given items of fur over the years.
  If I hadn't become a successful actor I'd have been a wardrobe mistress, without a doubt.
  For all the protestations, she appears to remain the Mistress of Masquerade.
  Although I was determined to beat down critics with a stick anyway, I can do now quite happily with the confidence that yes, the mistress of rock has done it again.
  Such a warrior is invariably a veteran, and a mistress of the art of war.
  Irritation, however, was hardly noble, and the dark mistress of science was finding it… well, irritating.
  Diana was a mistress of manipulation of the press.
  Stripping off the costume the wardrobe mistresses had to take in about half a centimetre of the costume since Friday!
  It soon becomes clear that Aurora is a mistress of misinformation.
  And they are the masters (and mistresses!) at teaching the others how to party.
3. 1.3 The female owner of a dog, cat, or other domesticated animal.
  （狗、猫等的）女主人
  the cat rubbed itself against its mistress's legs
  Example sentencesExamples
  The orange striped black cat purred and stalked towards the pool table, curling through her mistress' legs.
4. 1.4archaic A female head of a household.
  〈古〉主妇
  he asked for the mistress of the house
  他要找这家主妇。
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was the queen, the mistress of the house, cool and confident, beautiful and elegant.
  Eventually it was answered by a maid who went in search of the Mistress.
  If the master of an estate or the mistress of an estate has defaulted on the tax of the estate and a stranger has borne it, for three years the owner may not be evicted.
  The Mistress and Master were out on business, and I clearly remembered the warning I had been given.
  She found out later that her ex had told them all not to look the mistress of the house directly in the eyes.
  She was simply to be the mother of his children and mistress of his household.
  And as servants they presumably fell under the protection of the master or mistress of the household.
  Attracted by the uproar the master and the mistress of the house and their guests hurried to the scene and invited me to await the issue of this commotion.
  The manner of the mistress of the house showed that she entirely agreed with him.
5. 1.5 (especially formerly) a female employer of domestic staff.
  （尤指旧时的）女雇主
  Mary, go and fetch your mistress some cold chicken
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although mistresses sometimes taught their female slaves specific skills, slave women themselves normally transmitted those skills from one generation to the next.
  Servants observed their mistresses behaving exactly as domestics were trained not to act.
  Leanne was rather taken aback by her mistress's comment, but nodded.
  There can be no love between mistress and slave.
2A woman (other than the man's wife) having a sexual relationship with a married man.
情妇
Elsie knew her husband had a mistress tucked away somewhere
Example sentencesExamples
- He was sleeping with the mistress of one of the leading mobsters in the country.
- However, she has willingly become the mistress of one of our leaders.
- He had six sons and two daughters by various wives, concubines and mistresses.
- There is a story about a daughter's ambiguous ties with her father's mistress.
- About his personal life, he is now said to have six mistresses, including a female petitioner who had sought his help.
- The problem with Jamie was that he had no money to keep a long term mistress.
- Indeed, during the period investigated, forty-five men were convicted of maltreatment of their wives, fiancées or mistresses.
- And with them, the practice of British men taking Indian brides or mistresses passed into history.
- She belonged to some fancy ballroom or draped around the arm of a rich man being his mistress, not a teacher to students in an elementary school out in the middle of nowhere.
- I personally thought that Carina would be rather reluctant to give up the position of King's mistress even if Edmund had promised her nothing more.
- Pretty clothes and pretty faces are only a mask on the fierce games of love and hate warring between wives and mistresses, suitors and fathers.
- He surrounded himself with witty courtiers and kept many beautiful mistresses.
- He was a well known philanderer who specialized in slightly tawdry mistresses, a ne'er-do-well who barely kept up a front of respectability and who borrowed large sums of money from his son.
- She was the mistress of a king and caused him to lose his kingdom.
- Clothing may be given only to sisters, mistresses, and wives.
- They then abandoned their mistresses and married girls from their own class, who were substantially younger and expected to be virgins.
- However, she refused to be the mistress of the king.
- These were more traditionally expected from mistresses, wives, and mothers than from masters, husbands, and fathers.
- A love triangle goes wrong when a seventeen-year-old mistress takes out her lover's wife.
- Renee wondered if her husband's mistress was younger and prettier than she was.
Synonyms
lover, girlfriend, paramour, kept woman, live-in lover
courtesan, concubine, inamorata, hetaera, sultana
informal fancy woman, bit on the side, gun moll, (little) bit of fluff
British informal girlf
dated lady-love
archaic doxy, leman
1. 2.1archaic, literary A woman loved and courted by a man.
  〈古或诗/文〉女情人
3Mistressdialect, archaic Used as a title prefixed to the name of a married woman; Mrs.
〈古或方〉置于姓名前，用作对已婚女子的称呼夫人
Example sentencesExamples
- Among the many characters taking part were Mistress Crabby and Master Mandrake, who stopped at the fair on their way to Bolton Abbey.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French maistresse, from maistre 'master'.

miss from Old English:
To miss, meaning ‘to fail to hit’, goes back to Old English. On the surface of it the proverb a miss is as good as a mile is puzzling. The original longer form, from the early 17th century, is clearer: an inch in a miss is as good as an ell (an ell is an old measure of distance, see bow). As a title for a young girl or an unmarried woman miss is a shortening of mistress (Middle English), which itself is from the same Old French root as master (see magistrate).

Rhymes

headmistress

Definition of mistress in US English:

mistress

nounˈmistrisˈmɪstrɪs

1A woman in a position of authority or control.
权威女子，能控制局面的女子
she is always mistress of the situation, coolly self-possessed
她总能控制局面，表现沉着镇静。
figurative work is an unforgiving, implacable mistress
Example sentencesExamples
- Despite pleading and begging, the evil karaoke mistress would not budge.
- They helped organize the 1963 March on Washington and were master and mistress of ceremonies.
- At the end, the Chinese mistress of ceremonies slipped up by saying ‘goodbye’ in Japanese.
- Once she recognizes the historical constitution of the plantation mistress, Peterkin elects to reproduce it through her own activities.
- Double congrats to the mistress of ceremonies for putting on such a great show.
- The post mistress raises our flag in front of the post office.
- Emancipation changed the nature of plantation mistresses' work but not the plantation's schedule.
- Wendy the glamorous quiz mistress indicated that there were three parts to the answer and to get the full points you needed to get all the parts right.
Synonyms
doyenne, star, leading light, celebrity, big name, superstar, top dog, queen bee, prima donna, idol, heroine, favourite, darling
1. 1.1British with modifier A female schoolteacher who teaches a particular subject.
  〈主英〉（教某一门课的）女教师
  a Geography mistress
  女地理教师。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was initiated, in part by Marta, Tomas's mistress and the local schoolteacher.
  The head mistress looked very warm and welcoming, although stern and strict too.
  Despite the frightful sound of it, this acronym does not in fact indicate some child in callipers, nor does it reference what used to be whispered about the preferred proclivities of my biology mistress at school.
  It turned out their previous teacher had been a Miss Barwell from the Home Counties, a former elocution mistress who prided herself on her cut-glass vowels.
  The Headmaster and mistress watched the students excitedly, waiting for them to hug.
  There are others who fiddle about at the edges of things, such as the stranger's gang, the schoolmaster's mistress, a boy who comes for private lessons, the barber, the surgeon.
  In 1963 she became mathematics and science mistress at Danebank and remained here on part-time duties until 1974.
  And of all the worst teachers, we had to be found by our discipline mistress, the strictest teacher in our whole school.
  I recall quarrelling with Mrs. Look, our dumpy discipline mistress, because I technically didn't break any rules, and she didn't allow me in.
  This second post also carried with it a position of assistant mistress and Cartwright soon found that she was being diverted from teaching by the administration.
  Synonyms
  educator, tutor, instructor, pedagogue, schoolteacher, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, master, governess, educationalist, educationist
2. 1.2 A woman who is skilled in a particular subject or activity.
  女名家，女能手
  a mistress of the sound bite, she is famed for the acidity of her tongue
  她是录音采访节录名家，以尖酸刻薄出名。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Although I was determined to beat down critics with a stick anyway, I can do now quite happily with the confidence that yes, the mistress of rock has done it again.
  Irritation, however, was hardly noble, and the dark mistress of science was finding it… well, irritating.
  I am an amateur wardrobe mistress who has been given items of fur over the years.
  For all the protestations, she appears to remain the Mistress of Masquerade.
  It soon becomes clear that Aurora is a mistress of misinformation.
  Susan Swan is clearly the mistress of her material, and her narrative technique copes effortlessly with moving back and forth, between the journals of the past and the events of the present.
  Athill is the mistress of a cool, seemingly careless style.
  Stripping off the costume the wardrobe mistresses had to take in about half a centimetre of the costume since Friday!
  Such a warrior is invariably a veteran, and a mistress of the art of war.
  And they are the masters (and mistresses!) at teaching the others how to party.
  Diana was a mistress of manipulation of the press.
  If I hadn't become a successful actor I'd have been a wardrobe mistress, without a doubt.
3. 1.3 The female owner of a dog, cat, or other domesticated animal.
  （狗、猫等的）女主人
  Example sentencesExamples
  The orange striped black cat purred and stalked towards the pool table, curling through her mistress' legs.
4. 1.4archaic A female head of a household.
  〈古〉主妇
  he asked for the mistress of the house
  他要找这家主妇。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Attracted by the uproar the master and the mistress of the house and their guests hurried to the scene and invited me to await the issue of this commotion.
  The Mistress and Master were out on business, and I clearly remembered the warning I had been given.
  She was the queen, the mistress of the house, cool and confident, beautiful and elegant.
  If the master of an estate or the mistress of an estate has defaulted on the tax of the estate and a stranger has borne it, for three years the owner may not be evicted.
  She found out later that her ex had told them all not to look the mistress of the house directly in the eyes.
  Eventually it was answered by a maid who went in search of the Mistress.
  And as servants they presumably fell under the protection of the master or mistress of the household.
  She was simply to be the mother of his children and mistress of his household.
  The manner of the mistress of the house showed that she entirely agreed with him.
5. 1.5 (especially formerly) a female employer of domestic staff.
  （尤指旧时的）女雇主
  Example sentencesExamples
  Leanne was rather taken aback by her mistress's comment, but nodded.
  Although mistresses sometimes taught their female slaves specific skills, slave women themselves normally transmitted those skills from one generation to the next.
  There can be no love between mistress and slave.
  Servants observed their mistresses behaving exactly as domestics were trained not to act.
2A woman having an extramarital sexual relationship, especially with a married man.
情妇
Elsie knew her husband had a mistress tucked away somewhere
Example sentencesExamples
- And with them, the practice of British men taking Indian brides or mistresses passed into history.
- He had six sons and two daughters by various wives, concubines and mistresses.
- Pretty clothes and pretty faces are only a mask on the fierce games of love and hate warring between wives and mistresses, suitors and fathers.
- He was a well known philanderer who specialized in slightly tawdry mistresses, a ne'er-do-well who barely kept up a front of respectability and who borrowed large sums of money from his son.
- However, she refused to be the mistress of the king.
- A love triangle goes wrong when a seventeen-year-old mistress takes out her lover's wife.
- Renee wondered if her husband's mistress was younger and prettier than she was.
- These were more traditionally expected from mistresses, wives, and mothers than from masters, husbands, and fathers.
- I personally thought that Carina would be rather reluctant to give up the position of King's mistress even if Edmund had promised her nothing more.
- The problem with Jamie was that he had no money to keep a long term mistress.
- However, she has willingly become the mistress of one of our leaders.
- They then abandoned their mistresses and married girls from their own class, who were substantially younger and expected to be virgins.
- Indeed, during the period investigated, forty-five men were convicted of maltreatment of their wives, fiancées or mistresses.
- He was sleeping with the mistress of one of the leading mobsters in the country.
- He surrounded himself with witty courtiers and kept many beautiful mistresses.
- There is a story about a daughter's ambiguous ties with her father's mistress.
- Clothing may be given only to sisters, mistresses, and wives.
- She was the mistress of a king and caused him to lose his kingdom.
- She belonged to some fancy ballroom or draped around the arm of a rich man being his mistress, not a teacher to students in an elementary school out in the middle of nowhere.
- About his personal life, he is now said to have six mistresses, including a female petitioner who had sought his help.
Synonyms
lover, girlfriend, paramour, kept woman, live-in lover
1. 2.1literary, archaic A woman loved and courted by a man.
  〈古或诗/文〉女情人
3Mistressdialect, archaic Used as a title prefixed to the name of a married woman; Mrs.
〈古或方〉置于姓名前，用作对已婚女子的称呼夫人
Example sentencesExamples
- Among the many characters taking part were Mistress Crabby and Master Mandrake, who stopped at the fair on their way to Bolton Abbey.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French maistresse, from maistre ‘master’.

单词	mistress
释义	Definition of mistress in English: mistress noun ˈmɪstrəsˈmɪstrɪs 1A woman in a position of authority or control. 权威女子，能控制局面的女子 she is always mistress of the situation, coolly self-possessed 她总能控制局面，表现沉着镇静。 Example sentencesExamples Despite pleading and begging, the evil karaoke mistress would not budge. Once she recognizes the historical constitution of the plantation mistress, Peterkin elects to reproduce it through her own activities. Emancipation changed the nature of plantation mistresses' work but not the plantation's schedule. They helped organize the 1963 March on Washington and were master and mistress of ceremonies. At the end, the Chinese mistress of ceremonies slipped up by saying ‘goodbye’ in Japanese. The post mistress raises our flag in front of the post office. Wendy the glamorous quiz mistress indicated that there were three parts to the answer and to get the full points you needed to get all the parts right. Double congrats to the mistress of ceremonies for putting on such a great show. Synonyms doyenne, star, leading light, celebrity, big name, superstar, top dog, queen bee, prima donna, idol, heroine, favourite, darling 1.1British with modifier A female schoolteacher who teaches a particular subject. 〈主英〉（教某一门课的）女教师 a Geography mistress 女地理教师。 Example sentencesExamples There are others who fiddle about at the edges of things, such as the stranger's gang, the schoolmaster's mistress, a boy who comes for private lessons, the barber, the surgeon. I recall quarrelling with Mrs. Look, our dumpy discipline mistress, because I technically didn't break any rules, and she didn't allow me in. And of all the worst teachers, we had to be found by our discipline mistress, the strictest teacher in our whole school. The head mistress looked very warm and welcoming, although stern and strict too. The Headmaster and mistress watched the students excitedly, waiting for them to hug. Despite the frightful sound of it, this acronym does not in fact indicate some child in callipers, nor does it reference what used to be whispered about the preferred proclivities of my biology mistress at school. It was initiated, in part by Marta, Tomas's mistress and the local schoolteacher. In 1963 she became mathematics and science mistress at Danebank and remained here on part-time duties until 1974. It turned out their previous teacher had been a Miss Barwell from the Home Counties, a former elocution mistress who prided herself on her cut-glass vowels. This second post also carried with it a position of assistant mistress and Cartwright soon found that she was being diverted from teaching by the administration. Synonyms educator, tutor, instructor, pedagogue, schoolteacher, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, master, governess, educationalist, educationist 1.2 A woman who is skilled in a particular subject or activity. 女名家，女能手 a mistress of the sound bite, she is famed for the acidity of her tongue 她是录音采访节录名家，以尖酸刻薄出名。 Example sentencesExamples Susan Swan is clearly the mistress of her material, and her narrative technique copes effortlessly with moving back and forth, between the journals of the past and the events of the present. Athill is the mistress of a cool, seemingly careless style. I am an amateur wardrobe mistress who has been given items of fur over the years. If I hadn't become a successful actor I'd have been a wardrobe mistress, without a doubt. For all the protestations, she appears to remain the Mistress of Masquerade. Although I was determined to beat down critics with a stick anyway, I can do now quite happily with the confidence that yes, the mistress of rock has done it again. Such a warrior is invariably a veteran, and a mistress of the art of war. Irritation, however, was hardly noble, and the dark mistress of science was finding it… well, irritating. Diana was a mistress of manipulation of the press. Stripping off the costume the wardrobe mistresses had to take in about half a centimetre of the costume since Friday! It soon becomes clear that Aurora is a mistress of misinformation. And they are the masters (and mistresses!) at teaching the others how to party. 1.3 The female owner of a dog, cat, or other domesticated animal. （狗、猫等的）女主人 the cat rubbed itself against its mistress's legs Example sentencesExamples The orange striped black cat purred and stalked towards the pool table, curling through her mistress' legs. 1.4archaic A female head of a household. 〈古〉主妇 he asked for the mistress of the house 他要找这家主妇。 Example sentencesExamples She was the queen, the mistress of the house, cool and confident, beautiful and elegant. Eventually it was answered by a maid who went in search of the Mistress. If the master of an estate or the mistress of an estate has defaulted on the tax of the estate and a stranger has borne it, for three years the owner may not be evicted. The Mistress and Master were out on business, and I clearly remembered the warning I had been given. She found out later that her ex had told them all not to look the mistress of the house directly in the eyes. She was simply to be the mother of his children and mistress of his household. And as servants they presumably fell under the protection of the master or mistress of the household. Attracted by the uproar the master and the mistress of the house and their guests hurried to the scene and invited me to await the issue of this commotion. The manner of the mistress of the house showed that she entirely agreed with him. 1.5 (especially formerly) a female employer of domestic staff. （尤指旧时的）女雇主 Mary, go and fetch your mistress some cold chicken Example sentencesExamples Although mistresses sometimes taught their female slaves specific skills, slave women themselves normally transmitted those skills from one generation to the next. Servants observed their mistresses behaving exactly as domestics were trained not to act. Leanne was rather taken aback by her mistress's comment, but nodded. There can be no love between mistress and slave. 2A woman (other than the man's wife) having a sexual relationship with a married man. 情妇 Elsie knew her husband had a mistress tucked away somewhere Example sentencesExamples He was sleeping with the mistress of one of the leading mobsters in the country. However, she has willingly become the mistress of one of our leaders. He had six sons and two daughters by various wives, concubines and mistresses. There is a story about a daughter's ambiguous ties with her father's mistress. About his personal life, he is now said to have six mistresses, including a female petitioner who had sought his help. The problem with Jamie was that he had no money to keep a long term mistress. Indeed, during the period investigated, forty-five men were convicted of maltreatment of their wives, fiancées or mistresses. And with them, the practice of British men taking Indian brides or mistresses passed into history. She belonged to some fancy ballroom or draped around the arm of a rich man being his mistress, not a teacher to students in an elementary school out in the middle of nowhere. I personally thought that Carina would be rather reluctant to give up the position of King's mistress even if Edmund had promised her nothing more. Pretty clothes and pretty faces are only a mask on the fierce games of love and hate warring between wives and mistresses, suitors and fathers. He surrounded himself with witty courtiers and kept many beautiful mistresses. He was a well known philanderer who specialized in slightly tawdry mistresses, a ne'er-do-well who barely kept up a front of respectability and who borrowed large sums of money from his son. She was the mistress of a king and caused him to lose his kingdom. Clothing may be given only to sisters, mistresses, and wives. They then abandoned their mistresses and married girls from their own class, who were substantially younger and expected to be virgins. However, she refused to be the mistress of the king. These were more traditionally expected from mistresses, wives, and mothers than from masters, husbands, and fathers. A love triangle goes wrong when a seventeen-year-old mistress takes out her lover's wife. Renee wondered if her husband's mistress was younger and prettier than she was. Synonyms lover, girlfriend, paramour, kept woman, live-in lover courtesan, concubine, inamorata, hetaera, sultana informal fancy woman, bit on the side, gun moll, (little) bit of fluff British informal girlf dated lady-love archaic doxy, leman 2.1archaic, literary A woman loved and courted by a man. 〈古或诗/文〉女情人 3Mistressdialect, archaic Used as a title prefixed to the name of a married woman; Mrs. 〈古或方〉置于姓名前，用作对已婚女子的称呼夫人 Example sentencesExamples Among the many characters taking part were Mistress Crabby and Master Mandrake, who stopped at the fair on their way to Bolton Abbey. Origin Middle English: from Old French maistresse, from maistre 'master'. miss from Old English: To miss, meaning ‘to fail to hit’, goes back to Old English. On the surface of it the proverb a miss is as good as a mile is puzzling. The original longer form, from the early 17th century, is clearer: an inch in a miss is as good as an ell (an ell is an old measure of distance, see bow). As a title for a young girl or an unmarried woman miss is a shortening of mistress (Middle English), which itself is from the same Old French root as master (see magistrate). Rhymes headmistress Definition of mistress in US English: mistress nounˈmistrisˈmɪstrɪs 1A woman in a position of authority or control. 权威女子，能控制局面的女子 she is always mistress of the situation, coolly self-possessed 她总能控制局面，表现沉着镇静。 figurative work is an unforgiving, implacable mistress Example sentencesExamples Despite pleading and begging, the evil karaoke mistress would not budge. They helped organize the 1963 March on Washington and were master and mistress of ceremonies. At the end, the Chinese mistress of ceremonies slipped up by saying ‘goodbye’ in Japanese. Once she recognizes the historical constitution of the plantation mistress, Peterkin elects to reproduce it through her own activities. Double congrats to the mistress of ceremonies for putting on such a great show. The post mistress raises our flag in front of the post office. Emancipation changed the nature of plantation mistresses' work but not the plantation's schedule. Wendy the glamorous quiz mistress indicated that there were three parts to the answer and to get the full points you needed to get all the parts right. Synonyms doyenne, star, leading light, celebrity, big name, superstar, top dog, queen bee, prima donna, idol, heroine, favourite, darling 1.1British with modifier A female schoolteacher who teaches a particular subject. 〈主英〉（教某一门课的）女教师 a Geography mistress 女地理教师。 Example sentencesExamples It was initiated, in part by Marta, Tomas's mistress and the local schoolteacher. The head mistress looked very warm and welcoming, although stern and strict too. Despite the frightful sound of it, this acronym does not in fact indicate some child in callipers, nor does it reference what used to be whispered about the preferred proclivities of my biology mistress at school. It turned out their previous teacher had been a Miss Barwell from the Home Counties, a former elocution mistress who prided herself on her cut-glass vowels. The Headmaster and mistress watched the students excitedly, waiting for them to hug. There are others who fiddle about at the edges of things, such as the stranger's gang, the schoolmaster's mistress, a boy who comes for private lessons, the barber, the surgeon. In 1963 she became mathematics and science mistress at Danebank and remained here on part-time duties until 1974. And of all the worst teachers, we had to be found by our discipline mistress, the strictest teacher in our whole school. I recall quarrelling with Mrs. Look, our dumpy discipline mistress, because I technically didn't break any rules, and she didn't allow me in. This second post also carried with it a position of assistant mistress and Cartwright soon found that she was being diverted from teaching by the administration. Synonyms educator, tutor, instructor, pedagogue, schoolteacher, schoolmaster, schoolmistress, master, governess, educationalist, educationist 1.2 A woman who is skilled in a particular subject or activity. 女名家，女能手 a mistress of the sound bite, she is famed for the acidity of her tongue 她是录音采访节录名家，以尖酸刻薄出名。 Example sentencesExamples Although I was determined to beat down critics with a stick anyway, I can do now quite happily with the confidence that yes, the mistress of rock has done it again. Irritation, however, was hardly noble, and the dark mistress of science was finding it… well, irritating. I am an amateur wardrobe mistress who has been given items of fur over the years. For all the protestations, she appears to remain the Mistress of Masquerade. It soon becomes clear that Aurora is a mistress of misinformation. Susan Swan is clearly the mistress of her material, and her narrative technique copes effortlessly with moving back and forth, between the journals of the past and the events of the present. Athill is the mistress of a cool, seemingly careless style. Stripping off the costume the wardrobe mistresses had to take in about half a centimetre of the costume since Friday! Such a warrior is invariably a veteran, and a mistress of the art of war. And they are the masters (and mistresses!) at teaching the others how to party. Diana was a mistress of manipulation of the press. If I hadn't become a successful actor I'd have been a wardrobe mistress, without a doubt. 1.3 The female owner of a dog, cat, or other domesticated animal. （狗、猫等的）女主人 Example sentencesExamples The orange striped black cat purred and stalked towards the pool table, curling through her mistress' legs. 1.4archaic A female head of a household. 〈古〉主妇 he asked for the mistress of the house 他要找这家主妇。 Example sentencesExamples Attracted by the uproar the master and the mistress of the house and their guests hurried to the scene and invited me to await the issue of this commotion. The Mistress and Master were out on business, and I clearly remembered the warning I had been given. She was the queen, the mistress of the house, cool and confident, beautiful and elegant. If the master of an estate or the mistress of an estate has defaulted on the tax of the estate and a stranger has borne it, for three years the owner may not be evicted. She found out later that her ex had told them all not to look the mistress of the house directly in the eyes. Eventually it was answered by a maid who went in search of the Mistress. And as servants they presumably fell under the protection of the master or mistress of the household. She was simply to be the mother of his children and mistress of his household. The manner of the mistress of the house showed that she entirely agreed with him. 1.5 (especially formerly) a female employer of domestic staff. （尤指旧时的）女雇主 Example sentencesExamples Leanne was rather taken aback by her mistress's comment, but nodded. Although mistresses sometimes taught their female slaves specific skills, slave women themselves normally transmitted those skills from one generation to the next. There can be no love between mistress and slave. Servants observed their mistresses behaving exactly as domestics were trained not to act. 2A woman having an extramarital sexual relationship, especially with a married man. 情妇 Elsie knew her husband had a mistress tucked away somewhere Example sentencesExamples And with them, the practice of British men taking Indian brides or mistresses passed into history. He had six sons and two daughters by various wives, concubines and mistresses. Pretty clothes and pretty faces are only a mask on the fierce games of love and hate warring between wives and mistresses, suitors and fathers. He was a well known philanderer who specialized in slightly tawdry mistresses, a ne'er-do-well who barely kept up a front of respectability and who borrowed large sums of money from his son. However, she refused to be the mistress of the king. A love triangle goes wrong when a seventeen-year-old mistress takes out her lover's wife. Renee wondered if her husband's mistress was younger and prettier than she was. These were more traditionally expected from mistresses, wives, and mothers than from masters, husbands, and fathers. I personally thought that Carina would be rather reluctant to give up the position of King's mistress even if Edmund had promised her nothing more. The problem with Jamie was that he had no money to keep a long term mistress. However, she has willingly become the mistress of one of our leaders. They then abandoned their mistresses and married girls from their own class, who were substantially younger and expected to be virgins. Indeed, during the period investigated, forty-five men were convicted of maltreatment of their wives, fiancées or mistresses. He was sleeping with the mistress of one of the leading mobsters in the country. He surrounded himself with witty courtiers and kept many beautiful mistresses. There is a story about a daughter's ambiguous ties with her father's mistress. Clothing may be given only to sisters, mistresses, and wives. She was the mistress of a king and caused him to lose his kingdom. She belonged to some fancy ballroom or draped around the arm of a rich man being his mistress, not a teacher to students in an elementary school out in the middle of nowhere. About his personal life, he is now said to have six mistresses, including a female petitioner who had sought his help. Synonyms lover, girlfriend, paramour, kept woman, live-in lover 2.1literary, archaic A woman loved and courted by a man. 〈古或诗/文〉女情人 3Mistressdialect, archaic Used as a title prefixed to the name of a married woman; Mrs. 〈古或方〉置于姓名前，用作对已婚女子的称呼夫人 Example sentencesExamples Among the many characters taking part were Mistress Crabby and Master Mandrake, who stopped at the fair on their way to Bolton Abbey. Origin Middle English: from Old French maistresse, from maistre ‘master’.
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