Definitions for matron

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matron ma·tron

Spelling: [mey-truh n]

IPA: /ˈmeɪ trən/

Matron is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in matron (amnort).

Definitions for matron

noun

1. a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
2. a woman who has charge of the domestic affairs of a hospital, prison, or other institution.
3. a woman serving as a guard, warden, or attendant for women or girls, as in a prison.

Origin of matron

1350-1400; Middle English matrone Latin mātrōna a married woman, wife, derivative of māter mother

Examples for matron

On a morning in August the matron's report had closed with a startling item.

Then Sister Allworthy whispered to the matron, who said, "Bring her in."

That matron, like most Grecian women, was ignorant of her own written language.

The matron whispered to the messenger, and he left the room.

And the matron—not Miss Coffin, but the other one—called me 'Maggie.'

She reported to the matron that Mary was not neat and quarrelled all the time.

Never ought so worthy, so valuable a matron to be lost to the world.

The matron was sitting sideways at her table, with her dog snarling in her lap.

He asked why it was that Saldanha "was placed in a position in a matron office to be receiving calls from outside agencies".

Ted Lindsay, Reggie Sinclair, and Marty Pavelich of the Red Wings, were ushers, and Ted's wife, Pat, was matron of honor.