Definitions for matrons

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matrons ma·tron

Spelling: [mey-truh n]

IPA: /ˈmeɪ trən/

Matrons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 285 anagrams from letters in matrons (amnorst).

Definitions for matrons

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 matrons

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

Examples for matrons

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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