Usually means: Woman in relationship with married man.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. mistress: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mistress: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mistress, mistress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mistress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mistress: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mistress: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mistress, mistress: Wordnik
  8. mistress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Mistress, mistress: Wiktionary
  10. mistress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mistress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mistress: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mistress, mistress: Dictionary.com
  14. mistress: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mistress: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mistress (South Korean TV series), Mistress (band), Mistress (college), Mistress (disambiguation), Mistress (form of address), Mistress (lover), Mistress (novel), Mistress, The Mistress (TV series), The (Post) Mistress: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mistress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mistress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mistress: Rhymezone
  20. mistress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mistress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mistress: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mistress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mistress: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Mistress: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mistress: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mistress: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See mistresss as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership.
noun:  A female teacher.
noun:  The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
noun:  A dominatrix.
noun:  A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
noun:  a woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart.
noun:  (Scotland) A married woman; a wife.
noun:  (obsolete) The jack in the game of bowls.
noun:  A female companion to a master (a man with control, authority or ownership).
verb:  (transitive, rare) Of a woman: to master; to learn or develop to a high degree of proficiency.
verb:  (intransitive) To act or take the role of a mistress.
noun:  (archaic) Used as the title of a married woman before her name. Now used only in the abbreviated form Mrs.
noun:  (BDSM) Used as the title of a female dominant.

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