Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A woman who is a teacher.
- n. A headmistress of a school.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The mistress of a school; a woman who governs a school for children, but may or may not teach.
Wiktionary
- n. A woman in charge of a school.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
Examples
“The schoolmistress was a gray-haired widow, fifty or more, who had outlasted two husbands, and was coping sensibly with her meager chance of finding a third, preferring to support herself rather than live with one of her daughters, stepdaughters, or daughters-in-law.”
“So I went over to the schoolmaster's -- they have herbs there, I know -- but the schoolmistress is a mean woman, though she looks so sweet.”
“It not only called the schoolmistress through the benevolent agencies, and built them schoolhouses, but it helped discover and support such apostles of human development as Edmund”
“It not only called the schoolmistress through the benevolent agencies, and built them schoolhouses, but it helped discover and support such apostles of human development as Edmund Ware, Erastus Cravath, and Samuel Armstrong.”
“Which proves that the schoolmistress is a knave as well as -- the other thing.”
“I went over to the schoolmaster's -- they have herbs there, I know -- but the schoolmistress is a mean woman, though she looks so sweet.”
“The schoolmistress is a very worthy woman who had lost all that she had, and was in great distress.”
“Henry, when the little girl held the geraniums up to him, observed, that the back of her hand was bruised and black; he asked her how she had hurt herself, and she replied innocently, "that she had not hurt _herself_, but that her schoolmistress was a very _strict_ woman.”
“Peter felt that Nora Glynn was not the kind of schoolmistress the parish required, should he not send her away?”
“I think she is a kind of schoolmistress; but the other girl (I mean the nicer one, with the mother) tells me she is more respectable than she seems.”
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