Definition of mistress
- n. - A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman
who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a
school, etc.
- n. - A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery
over it.
- n. - A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has
command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
- n. - A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a
wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
- n. - 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woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted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.
- n. - A married woman; a wife.
- n. - The old name of the jack at bowls.
- v. i. - To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.