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headmistress

[ hed-mis-tris ]

noun

  1. a woman in charge of a private school.


headmistress

/ ˌɛˈٰə /

noun

  1. a female principal of a school Gender-neutral formhead teacher
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Gender Note

See -ess.
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Derived Forms

  • ˌ𲹻ˈٰˌ󾱱, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • 𲹻mt-󾱱 noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of headmistress1

First recorded in 1870–75; head + mistress
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Example Sentences

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Neither the stage production nor the musical can do much with the melodramatic Madame Morrible, the headmistress at Shiz who becomes a key player in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz’s fascist machinations.

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Her headmistress was angry, complaining that her former pupil was throwing her life away.

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“Miss Trunchbull is the evil headmistress. They only exist in a children’s book.”

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She’s the headmistress of a school that is literally collapsing, and her marriage to Dave is in peril because the couple has buried their grief after losing a child.

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It's been six years since "Girls" concluded, and since then Kirke has played a variety of acclaimed roles, including a strict headmistress on "Sex Education" and a charismatic author on "Conversations with Friends."

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