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 →

2) (old use) A mistress is a female teacher in some old schools. tree →

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 →
• The cat's mistress fed her every morning. tree →
• Our school mistress read us a story. tree →
• The mistress of the house gave orders to the cook. tree →

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.'
• For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mistress» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.