Mistress
WordNet
noun
(1) A woman master who directs the work of others
(2) An adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
(3) A woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
WiktionaryText
Noun
Mistress
- Used as the title of a married woman before her name. Now used only in the abbreviated form Mrs.
Quotations
1855 – 1857: The sound of Mistress Affery cautiously chaining the door before she opened it, caused them both to look that way. — Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens, Book 2, Chapter 10