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# mistress

«mistress» in Mova's school dictionary: **a woman who owns or is in charge of a household, servants…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (mistresses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A mistress is a woman who owns or is in charge of a household, servants or animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistress/#m1)

2) (old use) A mistress is a female teacher in some old schools. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistress/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the woman who rules a house, or who owns servants; in old stories a servant speaks to her mistress

### examples

- The maid went to tell her mistress the news. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistress/#x1)
- The cat's mistress fed her every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistress/#x2)
- Our school mistress read us a story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistress/#x3)
- The mistress of the house gave orders to the cook. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistress/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And the angel of the LORD said unto her: 'Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.406/)
- [For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.887/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mistress» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mistress/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.