Usually means: Female teacher in a school.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word schoolmistress:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. schoolmistress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. schoolmistress: Merriam-Webster
  3. schoolmistress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. schoolmistress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. schoolmistress: Collins English Dictionary
  6. schoolmistress: Vocabulary.com
  7. Schoolmistress, schoolmistress: Wordnik
  8. schoolmistress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. schoolmistress: Wiktionary
  10. schoolmistress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. schoolmistress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. schoolmistress: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. schoolmistress: Dictionary.com
  14. Schoolmistress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. schoolmistress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. schoolmistress: Rhymezone
  17. Schoolmistress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. schoolmistress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. schoolmistress: FreeDictionary.org
  20. schoolmistress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. schoolmistress: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. schoolmistress: Legal dictionary

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  1. schoolmistress: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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▸ noun:  A woman in charge of a school.

Similar:
schoolmarm, mistress, headmistress, schoolmaster, headmistress-ship, head, housemaster, superintendress, house master, headmaster, more...

Opposite:
schoolmaster, male teacher, educator

Types:
governess, tutor, teacher, professor, instructor, more...

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Similar:
schoolmarm, mistress, headmistress, schoolmaster, headmistress-ship, head, housemaster, superintendress, house master, headmaster, more...

Opposite:
schoolmaster, male teacher, educator

Types:
governess, tutor, teacher, professor, instructor, more...



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