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Definition of Mistress

Mistress 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 A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.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. Related Definitions: An, And, Anything, At, Authority, Be, Beloved, Bowls, But, By, Chief, Command, Concubine, Contracted, Courtesy, Courting, Devotion, Family, Female, Filling, For, Formerly, Having, Head, Heart, Has, In, Is, It, Jack, Loose, Love, Married, Mastery, Miss, Mistress, Name, Now, Object, Of, Old, One, Or, Over, Ownership, Place, Power, Prefixed, Regarded, School, She, Skilled, Superseded, Sweetheart, The, Title, To, Upon, Wait, Well, Who, Whom, Wife, With, Without, Woman

Mistress Quotations The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. Ambrose Bierce The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken. Francois de La Rochefoucauld Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. Victor Hugo Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. Napoleon Bonaparte

Mistress Translations mistress in French is maitresse mistress in German is Herrin, Herrin, Gebieterin mistress in Latin is era, domina

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