mistress
an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
How often you will meet it
Rank 973 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 18,817 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.009% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man also: kept woman, fancy woman
- a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) also: schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress
- a woman master who directs the work of others
mistress in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Mrs. Cupp had indeed reason to remember her mistress gratefully.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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She saw that she would have to be the mistress of the situation.
The Bad Man: A Novel · Charles Hanson Towne · Chapter 1
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No nymph is she, but mistress of the air, By whom my glories are but new begun.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1
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The boy is twenty-five, quite good looking, and has a very stylish mistress: I have seen her.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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That nobleman bowl booty? faith, his cheek Hath a most excellent bias: it would fain Jump with my mistress.
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1