mistress 的定义
- a woman who has authority, control, or power, especially the female head of a household, institution, or other establishment.
- a female owner of enslaved people, in the institution of chattel slavery; a female slaveholder: Her father’s last will and testament made her mistress of his slaves after his death in 1837.
- a female owner of a pet or other animal: That horse can only be handled by his mistress and a few of the grooms.
- Older Use. a woman employing, or in authority over, servants or attendants: The maid laid out two outfits every morning so that her mistress might choose the one that best suited her mood.
- the dominant sexual partner, when female, in a BDSM relationship of unequal power.
- a woman who has the power of controlling or disposing of something at her own pleasure: mistress of a great fortune.
- something regarded as feminine that has control or supremacy: Great Britain, the mistress of the seas.
- a woman who is skilled in something, as an occupation or art.
- a woman who has a continuing, extramarital sexual relationship with one man, especially a man who, in return for an exclusive and continuing liaison, provides her with financial support.
- British. a female schoolteacher; schoolmistress.
- a term of address in former use and corresponding to Mrs., Miss, or Ms.
- Archaic. sweetheart.
mistress 近义词
ladylove
woman in extramarital relationship
更多mistress例句
- Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke said that even after Watts was convicted, people sent angry emails about the killer dad’s mistress not being prosecuted, too.
- For decades, Israel was the mistress every nation wanted to be with in private but didn’t necessarily want to acknowledge in public because of its treatment of Palestinians.
- Her Catholic father, Baron Maximilian von Schoenebeck, drank only the finest wine, collected rare antiques and preferred his mistresses beautiful but not too intelligent.
- It’s while staying at the sober-living facility that Wendy learns Kevin and his mistress are having a child, a betrayal that leads her to decisively end their marriage — and their business relationship.
- When I proposed to draw on these stories and do a profile of Greene for Playboy magazine, he gave me the go-ahead, with the proviso that I not mention his last mistress, Yvonne Cloetta.
- He said, too, that after being accepted as a slave to Mistress Couple, he has made massive strides psychologically.
- After a stint with a replacement Head Mistress went sour, R seriously considered shutting down La Domaine for good.
- And Pope Alexander VI had the painter Pinturicchio disguise his mistress as the Virgin Mary in one fresco.
- Head mistress Jean Harris is the ultimate proof of “Hell Hath No Fury like a Woman Scorned.”
- On top of the pleasure (or pain), the clients who saw Mistress Carla received their own additional perks.
- Woman is mistress of the art of completely embittering the life of the person on whom she depends.
- But Mary had gone home after dressing her mistress, and the fat boy came back again more disturbed than before.
- The mistress of the house affectionately inquired if she felt equal to a short conversation.
- Her young mistress got up and approached her, also growing pale, for she perceived that danger was at the door.
- They made an odd procession as they marched out of the hall, under the sullen eyes of the baulked cut-throats and their mistress.