mistress
/ˈmɪs.tɹɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.86 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
noun
A dominatrix.
noun
A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart.
noun
A married woman; a wife.
Example Sentences
- "She was the mistress of the estate-mansion, and owned the horses."
- "At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook."
- "In came the boy from over the way, who was suspected of not having board enough from his master; trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one, who was proved to have had her ears pulled by her Mistress."
- "games mistress"
- "“But soon his wrath being o’er, he took / “Another mistress, or new book:"
- "Count Krivtsov was considered a hopeless case by everyone, and yet he kept two mistresses."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂-der.? Proto-Indo-European *meh₂-der.? Proto-Italic *magisteros Latin magister, magistrum Old French maistre Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der. Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă) Ancient Greek -ισσα (-issa)bor. Latin -issader. Old French -esse Old French maistressebor. Middle English maistresse English mistress From Middle English maistresse, from Old French maistresse (whence French maîtresse), feminine of maistre (“master”). By surface analysis, mist(e)r + -ess.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: maistresse