Mistress

Noun

 * 1) a woman, specifically one with control, authority or ownership
 * She was the mistress of the mansion, and owned the horses.
 * 1) a female teacher
 * games mistress
 * 1) a female partner in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
 * 2) a dominatrix

Synonyms

 * (woman with control, authority or ownership): boss (applicable to either sex), head (applicable to either sex), leader (applicable to either sex)
 * (female teacher): schoolmarm
 * (woman who displaces a wife in the affections of a man): bit on the side (applicable to either sex), fancy woman, comaré, goomah
 * See also Thesaurus:mistress

Antonyms
Male equivalents:
 * (woman with control, authority or ownership): master
 * (female teacher): master
 * (female partner in an extramarital affair): cicisbeo, fancy man
 * (dominatrix): master

Derived terms

 * headmistress
 * mistresshood


 * mistresslike
 * mistressship


 * mistressy
 * wardrobe mistress

Adjectives for Mistress
gentle; mature; worthless; doting; fair; merry; accomplished; rare; gracious; white-handed; fine; queenly; slowly-fading; exacting; sovereign; indulgent; flaming; deserted; dread; petty; proud; dainty; virtuous; mischievous; brilliant; coquettish.

Verbs for Mistress
attend—; chain to—; desert—; devote to—; discard—; escort—; harbor—; maintain—; restrain—; serve—; squire—; stray to—; support—; —enslaves; —escapes; —submits.

Thesaurus 1
Dulcinea, abbess, beneficiary, best girl, cestui, cestui que trust, cestui que use, chatelaine, concubine, dame, deedholder, dowager, doxy, dream girl, duenna, educatress, feoffee, feudatory, first lady, gill, girl, girl friend, goodwife, governess, great lady, headmistress, homemaker, householder, housewife, inamorata, instructress, jill, jo, kept mistress, kept woman, lady, lady love, laird, landlady, landlord, lass, lassie, lord, lover, madam, master, matriarch, matron, mesne, mesne lord, mother superior, odalisque, old lady, owner, paramour, playmate, proprietary, proprietor, proprietress, proprietrix, rentier, schooldame, schoolmarm, schoolmistress, squire, titleholder, tutoress, unofficial wife, woman

Thesaurus 2
Frau, Fraulein, Miss, Mlle, Mme, Mmes, dame, dona, donna, lady, madam, madame, mademoiselle, mem-sahib, mesdames, senhora, senhorita, signora, signorina, vrouw

Etymology
From and  maistresse (French: maîtresse), feminine of maistre, master

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * French:
 * German: Frau, Meisterin
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian:, газдарица, стопанка


 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:, شهبانو
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: raji
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bana-mhaighstir
 * Serbian: газдарица,


 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Latin: magistra


 * Norwegian Bokmål: ,
 * Romani: sityarica
 * Serbian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Arabic: خليلة, عشيقة
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 相好的, 情婦,  情妇, 姦婦,  奸妇
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Liebhaberin
 * Greek: ερωμένη
 * Hungarian:


 * Indonesian: gundik
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 情婦
 * Macedonian: љубовница, швалерка
 * Manx: colhiabbagh
 * Norwegian Bokmål:
 * Romani: piramnyi
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:, швалерка
 * Spanish:


 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: domina


 * Russian:, владычица,  правительница
 * Serbian: