Misteresses vs. Mistresses — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Misteresses and Mistresses
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Definitions
Misteresses➦
Plural of misteress
Mistresses➦
A woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a man who is married to someone else.
Mistresses➦
A woman in a position of authority, control, or ownership, as the head of a household
"Thirteen years had seen her mistress of Kellynch Hall" (Jane Austen).
Mistresses➦
A woman who owns or keeps an animal
A cat sitting in its mistress's lap.
Mistresses➦
A woman who owns a slave.
Mistresses➦
A woman with ultimate control over something
The mistress of her own mind.
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Mistresses➦
A nation or country that has supremacy over others
Great Britain, once the mistress of the seas.
Mistresses➦
Something personified as female that directs or reigns
"my mistress ... the open road" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
Mistresses➦
A woman who has mastered a skill or branch of learning
A mistress of the culinary art.
Mistresses➦
Mistress Used formerly as a courtesy title when speaking to or of a woman.
Mistresses➦
Chiefly British A woman schoolteacher.
Mistresses➦
Plural of mistress
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