Boss vs. Mistress — What's the Difference?

A person who is in charge of a worker or organization

A woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a man who is married to someone else.

A stud on the centre of a shield.

A woman in a position of authority, control, or ownership, as the head of a household

A large mass of igneous rock protruding through other strata.

A woman who owns or keeps an animal

A cow.

A woman who owns a slave.

Give (someone) orders in a domineering manner

A woman with ultimate control over something

Excellent; outstanding

A nation or country that has supremacy over others

An employer or supervisor.

Something personified as female that directs or reigns

One who makes decisions or exercises authority.

A woman who has mastered a skill or branch of learning

A professional politician who controls a party or a political machine.

Mistress Used formerly as a courtesy title when speaking to or of a woman.

A circular protuberance or knoblike swelling, as on the horns of certain animals.

Chiefly British A woman schoolteacher.

A raised area used as ornamentation.

A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership

(Architecture) A raised ornament, such as one at the intersection of the ribs in a vaulted roof.

A female teacher

An enlarged part of a shaft to which another shaft is coupled or to which a wheel or gear is keyed.

The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations

A hub, especially of a propeller.

A dominatrix

A cow or calf.

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it

To give orders to, especially in an arrogant or domineering manner

A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart

To emboss.

(Scotland) A married woman; a wife

First-rate; topnotch.

(obsolete) The jack in the game of bowls

A person who oversees and directs the work of others; a supervisor.

A female companion to a master a man with control, authority or ownership

A person in charge of a business or company.

Female equivalent of master

A leader, the head of an organized group or team.

Female equivalent of mister

The head of a political party in a given region or district.

Of a woman: to master; to learn or develop to a high degree of proficiency.

A term of address to a man.

(intransitive) To act or take the role of a mistress.

(video games) An enemy, often at the end of a level, that is particularly challenging and must be beaten in order to progress.

A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.

(humorous) Wife.

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

A swelling, lump or protuberance in an animal, person or object.

A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.

(geology) A lump-like mass of rock, especially one projecting through a stratum of different rock.

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.

A convex protuberance in hammered work, especially the rounded projection in the centre of a shield.

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.

(mechanics) A protrusion, frequently a cylinder of material that extends beyond a hole.

A married woman; a wife.

(architectural element) A knob or projection, usually at the intersection of ribs in a vault.

The old name of the jack at bowls.

(archery) A target block, made of foam but historically made of hay bales, to which a target face is attached.

To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

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

A head or reservoir of water.

A woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

(obsolete) A hassock or small seat, especially made from a bundle of straw.

A woman master who directs the work of others

(transitive) To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly.

(transitive) To decorate with bosses; to emboss.

Of excellent quality, first-rate.

Any protuberant part; a round, swelling part or body; a knoblike process; as, a boss of wood.

A protuberant ornament on any work, either of different material from that of the work or of the same, as upon a buckler or bridle; a stud; a knob; the central projection of a shield. See Umbilicus.

A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs of ceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder.

The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another.

A head or reservoir of water.

A master workman or superintendent; a director or manager; a political dictator.

To ornament with bosses; to stud.

A person who exercises control over workers;

A person responsible for hiring workers;

A person who exercises control and makes decisions;

A leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments;

A circular rounded projection or protuberance

Raise in a relief;

Exceptionally good;