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Mistress vs. Mister

Mistress and Mister Definitions

Mistress

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

Mister

Used as a courtesy title before the surname, full name, or professional title of a man, usually written in its abbreviated form
Mr. Jones.
Mr. Secretary.

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).

Mister

Used as the official term of address for certain US military personnel, such as warrant officers.

Mistress

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

Mister

Mister Informal Used as a form of address for a man
Watch your step, mister.
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Mistress

A woman who owns a slave.

Mister

(Informal) One's husband or boyfriend
My mister says hello.

Mistress

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

Mister

A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child.
You may sit here, mister.

Mistress

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

Mister

(obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
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Mistress

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

Mister

A kind, type of.

Mistress

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

Mister

(obsolete) Need (of something).

Mistress

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

Mister

(obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
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Mistress

Chiefly British A woman schoolteacher.

Mister

A device that makes or sprays mist.
Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.

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.

Mister

(ambitransitive) To address by the title of "mister". 18

Mistress

A female teacher
Male equivalent: master
Games mistress

Mister

To be necessary; to matter.

Mistress

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

Mister

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.
To call your name, inquire your where,Or what you think of Mister Some-one's book,Or Mister Other's marriage or decease.

Mistress

A dominatrix
Male equivalent: master

Mister

A trade, art, or occupation.
In youth he learned had a good mester.

Mistress

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

Mister

Manner; kind; sort.
But telleth me what mester men ye be.

Mistress

A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart

Mister

Need; necessity.

Mistress

(Scotland) A married woman; a wife

Mister

To address or mention by the title Mr.; as, he mistered me in a formal way.

Mistress

(obsolete) The jack in the game of bowls

Mister

To be needful or of use.
As for my name, it mistereth not to tell.

Mistress

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

Mister

A form of address for a man

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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