mistress
Speech parts
1. mistress - Noun
2. mistress - Verb
Meaning
A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.
A married woman; a wife.
The old name of the jack at bowls.
To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.
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Examples
Art is a jealous mistress.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
When a man marries his mistress it creates a job vacancy.
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress.
Desperation is the mistress of the impossible.
The mistress is queen, the wife is the slave.