meaning of mistress
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.
2. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over ones heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
4. A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
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 A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs.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.
6. A married woman; a wife.
7. The old name of the jack at bowls.
8. To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
Related Words
mistress | mistressship |
