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Meaning of 'mistress' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Mistress [ n.]
- 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 concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
- A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.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.
2 . Mistress [ v. i.]
- To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

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