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Synonyms for mistress
ˈmɪs trɪsmis·tress

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Wiktionary3.0 / 1 vote

  1. mistressnoun

    Synonyms:
    comaré, fancy woman, head, bit on the side, schoolmarm, leader, goomah, boss

  2. mistressnoun

    a woman, specifically one with control, authority or ownership

    She was the mistress of the mansion, and owned the horses.

    Synonyms:
    comaré, schoolmarm, leader, boss, fancy woman, bit on the side, goomah, head

  3. mistressnoun

    a female teacher

    games mistress

    Synonyms:
    leader, boss, goomah, fancy woman, bit on the side, head, comaré, schoolmarm

  4. mistressnoun

    a female partner in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

    Synonyms:
    bit on the side, leader, schoolmarm, goomah, boss, fancy woman, comaré, head

  5. mistressnoun

    a dominatrix

    Synonyms:
    comaré, head, boss, goomah, bit on the side, schoolmarm, fancy woman, leader

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mistress, kept woman, fancy womannoun

    an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

    Synonyms:
    cocotte, lady of pleasure, working girl, fancy woman, prostitute, whore, woman of the street, cyprian, schoolmistress, kept woman, sporting lady, tart, bawd, schoolmarm, harlot, schoolma'am

  2. schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistressnoun

    a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

    Synonyms:
    schoolma'am, schoolmistress, schoolmarm, fancy woman, kept woman

  3. mistressnoun

    a woman master who directs the work of others

    Synonyms:
    schoolmarm, schoolmistress, schoolma'am, fancy woman, kept woman

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mistressnoun

    Synonyms:
    female head, female sovereign

  2. mistressnoun

    Synonyms:
    instructress, female teacher

  3. mistressnoun

    Synonyms:
    sweetheart, flame, doxy

  4. mistressnoun

    Synonyms:
    concubine, paramour

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. mistressnoun

    Synonyms:
    matron, superior, sweetheart, flame, dulcinea, ladylove, amaryllis, paramour, concubine, demirep, lorette, delilah, phryne, corotte

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "mistress":

    lover, domina, master, teacher, concubine, lady, affair

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#692head
#1314master
#1712teacher
#2047leader
#2715lady
#4699boss
#6557lover
#7692mistress
#9420affair
#9802whore
#21938tart
#28024prostitute
#39614domina
#59003harlot
#78345concubine
#91910cyprian
#185156cocotte
#199307bawd
#291617schoolmistress

How to use mistress in a sentence?

  1. Ambrose Bierce:

    Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

  2. Daily Mail reviewer Quentin Letts:

    Figures in black balaclavas assist in the humiliation. With mistress-of-stunts Katie Mitchell directing, we have, from the start, ambient noise, honking klaxons, cage doors clanking, fizzing strip-lights -- no cliche is spared.

  3. Henri De Regnier:

    It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

  4. unknown:

    You will not find the warrior, the poet, the philosopher or the Christian by staring into his eyes as if he were your mistress: better fight beside him, read with him, argue with him, pray with him.

  5. Manisha Koirala:

    I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.


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