Mistress vs. Mister — What's the Difference?

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

Variant form of Mr, often used humorously or with offensive emphasis

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

A device with a nozzle for spraying a mist of water, especially on houseplants.

A woman who owns or keeps an animal

Used as a courtesy title before the surname, full name, or professional title of a man, usually written in its abbreviated form

A woman who owns a slave.

Used as the official term of address for certain US military personnel, such as warrant officers.

A woman with ultimate control over something

Mister Informal Used as a form of address for a man

A nation or country that has supremacy over others

(Informal) One's husband or boyfriend

Something personified as female that directs or reigns

A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child.

A woman who has mastered a skill or branch of learning

(obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.

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

A kind, type of.

Chiefly British A woman schoolteacher.

(obsolete) Need (of something).

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

(obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.

A female teacher

A device that makes or sprays mist.

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

(ambitransitive) To address by the title of "mister". 18

A dominatrix

To be necessary; to matter.

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

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.

A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart

A trade, art, or occupation.

(Scotland) A married woman; a wife

Manner; kind; sort.

(obsolete) The jack in the game of bowls

Need; necessity.

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

To address or mention by the title Mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way.

Female equivalent of master

To be needful or of use.

Female equivalent of mister

A form of address for a man

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

A married woman; a wife.

The old name of the jack at bowls.

To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

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

A woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

A woman master who directs the work of others