slovodefinícia
mistress
(mass)
mistress
- pani
mistress
(encz)
mistress,milenka n: Zdeněk Brož
mistress
(encz)
mistress,mistrová Zdeněk Brož
mistress
(encz)
mistress,paní Zdeněk Brož
mistress
(encz)
mistress,vládkyně Zdeněk Brož
Mistress
(gcide)
Mistress \Mis"tress\, n. [OE. maistress, OF. maistresse, F.
ma[^i]tresse, LL. magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of
magister. See Master, Mister, and cf. Miss a young
woman.]
1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who
exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a
family, a school, etc.
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The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter!
To be her mistress' mistress! --Shak.
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2. A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery
over it.
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A letter desires all young wives to make themselves
mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. --Addison.
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3. A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has
command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
[Poetic] --Clarendon.
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4. A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a
wife; a woman having an ongoing usually exclusive sexual
relationship with a man, who may provide her with
financial support in return; a concubine; a loose woman
with whom one consorts habitually; as, both his wife and
his mistress attended his funeral. --Spectator.
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5. 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woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the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.
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Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul). --Cowper.
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6. A married woman; a wife. [Scot.]
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Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled
to witness the event of this memorable evening.
--Sir W.
Scott.
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7. The old name of the jack at bowls. --Beau. & Fl.
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To be one's own mistress, to be exempt from control by
another person.
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Mistress
(gcide)
Mistress \Mis"tress\, v. i.
To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. [Obs.] --Donne.
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mistress
(wn)
mistress
n 1: an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing
extramarital sexual relationship with a man [syn:
mistress, kept woman, fancy woman]
2: a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
[syn: schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress,
mistress]
3: a woman master who directs the work of others
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headmistress
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schoolmistress
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games-mistress
(encz)
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headmistress,ředitelka školy Hynek Hanke
headmistresses
(encz)
headmistresses,
headmistressship
(encz)
headmistressship, n:
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(encz)
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mistresses
(encz)
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postmistress
(encz)
postmistress,poštmistrová n: Zdeněk Brož
schoolmistress
(encz)
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taskmistress
(encz)
taskmistress,žena zadávající úkoly n: Zdeněk Brož
toast mistress
(encz)
toast mistress, n:
toastmistress
(encz)
toastmistress,
ballet mistress
(gcide)
ballet mistress \bal"let` mis"tress\, n.
a woman who trains ballet dancers.
[PJC]
Kept mistress
(gcide)
kept \kept\ (k[e^]pt),
imp. & p. p. of Keep.
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Kept woman, Kept mistress, a concubine; a woman supported
by a man as his paramour.
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Mistress of the robes
(gcide)
Robe \Robe\, n. [F., fr. LL. rauba a gown, dress, garment;
originally, booty, plunder. See Rob, v. t., and cf.
Rubbish.]
1. An outer garment; a dress of a rich, flowing, and elegant
style or make; hence, a dress of state, rank, office, or
the like.
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Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;
Robes and furred gowns hide all. --Shak.
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2. A skin of an animal, especially, a skin of the bison,
dressed with the fur on, and used as a wrap. [U.S.]
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Master of the robes, an officer of the English royal
household (when the sovereign is a king) whose duty is
supposed to consist in caring for the royal robes.

Mistress of the robes, a lady who enjoys the highest rank
of the ladies in the service of the English sovereign
(when a queen), and is supposed to have the care her
robes.
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Mistressship
(gcide)
Mistressship \Mis"tress*ship\, n.
1. Female rule or dominion.
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2. Ladyship, a style of address; -- with the personal
pronoun. [Obs.] --Massinger.
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Schoolmistress
(gcide)
Schoolmistress \School"mis`tress\, n.
A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female
school-teacher.
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