schoolmistress
schoolmistress · schoolmistresses
A woman in charge of a schoolA woman in charge of a school.
» Necessity is a stern but an excellent schoolmistress.
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1 sensesA woman in charge of a school.
a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
Examples
2 sentencesNecessity is a stern but an excellent schoolmistress.
I'm a schoolmistress.
Origin
From school + mistress.From school + mistress.
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Forms
plural: schoolmistresses| Singular | schoolmistress |
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regular
Synonyms
4 synonymsClose in meaning
- a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict):schoolmarmschoolma'ammistress
Word family
1 related wordsRelatedschoolmaster
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.