mistress
mistress is a 8-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
- noun. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
- noun. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
- noun. A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
- noun. A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.
- noun. A married woman; a wife.
- noun. The old name of the jack at bowls.
- intransitive verb. To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
- noun. a woman master who directs the work of others
- noun. an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
- noun. a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
Synonyms
schoolmaam, schoolmarm, schoolmistress
Common word forms
mistresses, mistressly, mistressless
Words from these letters
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