mistress   (Sound)

The noun mistress has 3 senses

• mistress, kept woman, fancy woman -- (an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man)


• schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistress -- (a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict))


• mistress -- (a woman master who directs the work of others)