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Mistress vs. Goddess

Mistress and Goddess Definitions

Mistress

A woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a man who is married to someone else.

Goddess

A female being of supernatural powers or attributes, believed in and worshiped by a people.

Mistress

A woman in a position of authority, control, or ownership, as the head of a household
"Thirteen years had seen her mistress of Kellynch Hall" (Jane Austen).

Goddess

Often Goddess A female being believed to be the source of life and being and worshiped as the principal deity in various religions. Used with the.

Mistress

A woman who owns or keeps an animal
A cat sitting in its mistress's lap.

Goddess

An image of a female supernatural being; an idol.
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Mistress

A woman who owns a slave.

Goddess

Something, such as fame or wealth, that is worshiped or idealized.

Mistress

A woman with ultimate control over something
The mistress of her own mind.

Goddess

A woman of great beauty or grace.

Mistress

A nation or country that has supremacy over others
Great Britain, once the mistress of the seas.

Goddess

(religion) A female deity.
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Mistress

Something personified as female that directs or reigns
"my mistress ... the open road" (Robert Louis Stevenson).

Goddess

(figuratively) A woman honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence.

Mistress

A woman who has mastered a skill or branch of learning
A mistress of the culinary art.

Goddess

(figuratively) A woman of substantial authority or influence.

Mistress

Mistress Used formerly as a courtesy title when speaking to or of a woman.

Goddess

A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
When the daughter of Jupiter presented herself among a crowd of goddesses, she was distinguished by her graceful stature and superior beauty.
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Mistress

Chiefly British A woman schoolteacher.

Goddess

A woman of superior charms or excellence.

Mistress

A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership
Male equivalent: master
She was the mistress of the estate-mansion, and owned the horses.

Goddess

A female deity

Mistress

A female teacher
Male equivalent: master
Games mistress

Mistress

The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations

Mistress

A dominatrix
Male equivalent: master

Mistress

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it

Mistress

A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart

Mistress

(Scotland) A married woman; a wife

Mistress

(obsolete) The jack in the game of bowls

Mistress

A female companion to a master a man with control, authority or ownership

Mistress

Female equivalent of master

Mistress

Female equivalent of mister

Mistress

Of a woman: to master; to learn or develop to a high degree of proficiency.

Mistress

(intransitive) To act or take the role of a mistress.

Mistress

A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter!To be her mistress' mistress!

Mistress

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic.

Mistress

A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.

Mistress

A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a woman having an ongoing usually exclusive sexual relationship with a man, who may provide her with financial support in return; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually; as, both his wife and his mistress attended his funeral.

Mistress

A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.
Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul).

Mistress

A married woman; a wife.
Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled to witness the event of this memorable evening.

Mistress

The old name of the jack at bowls.

Mistress

To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

Mistress

An adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

Mistress

A woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

Mistress

A woman master who directs the work of others

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