Definitions for Mistress

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Mistress mis·tress

Spelling: [mis-tris]

IPA: /ˈmɪs trɪs/

Mistress is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 216 anagrams from letters in Mistress (eimrssst).

Definitions for Mistress

noun

1. a woman who has authority, control, or power, especially the female head of a household, institution, or other establishment.
2. a woman employing, or in authority over, servants or attendants.
3. a female owner of an animal, or formerly, a slave.
4. a woman who has the power of controlling or disposing of something at her own pleasure:
5. (sometimes initial capital letter) something regarded as feminine that has control or supremacy:
6. a woman who is skilled in something, as an occupation or art.
7. a woman who has a continuing, extramarital sexual relationship with one man, especially a man who, in return for an exclusive and continuing liaison, provides her with financial support.
8. British. a female schoolteacher; schoolmistress.
9. (initial capital letter) a term of address in former use and corresponding to Mrs., Miss, or Ms.
10. Archaic. sweetheart.

Origin of Mistress

1275-1325; Middle English maistresse Middle French, Old French, equivalent to maistre master + -esse -ess

Examples for Mistress

She broods on a portrait of her mistress, happy that it cannot say “you are not mine.”

At any rate, if the lady of the house objected to it, it could return with mistress Randall.

He had made a mistress of a girl he rescued from some blasted-out village conquered by the Red Army at the end of the war.

The master and mistress thenceforth transact their affairs by deputy.

Master received him with cordiality, and presented him to mistress.

As a teenager, I was the mistress of his brother—who ‘gave’ me as a gift to the sultan.

And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.

“I will send her some, and likewise of mine own comfits and cakes,” said mistress Dennet.

Never, never, wringing her hands, should she meet with a mistress she loved so well.

He said, too, that after being accepted as a slave to mistress Couple, he has made massive strides psychologically.