mistress
/ˈmɪs.tɹɪs/ noun C1- A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership. · She was the mistress of the estate-mansion, and owned the horses.
- A female head of household.
- A female teacher. · games mistress
- The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
- A dominatrix.
- A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
- A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart.
- A female companion to a master (a man with control, authority or ownership).
Plural mistresses
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Bennet before breakfast, a conversation beginning with his parsonage-house, and leading naturally to the avowal of his hopes, that a mistress for it might be found at Longbourn, produced from her, amid very complaisant smiles and general encouragement, a caution against the very Jane he had fixed on.
It now first struck her, that _she_ was selected from among her sisters as worthy of being the mistress of Hunsford Parsonage, and of assisting to form a quadrille table at Rosings, in the absence of more eligible visitors.
Bennet,” said she, “it is very hard to think that Charlotte Lucas should ever be mistress of this house, that _I_ should be forced to make way for _her_, and live to see her take my place in it!”
“But he paid her not the smallest attention till her grandfather’s death made her mistress of this fortune?”
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