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schoolmistress

[ skool-mis-tris ]

noun

  1. a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.


schoolmistress

/ ˈːˌɪٰɪ /

noun

  1. a woman who teaches in or runs a school
“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

  • ˈǴDZˌٰ, adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of schoolmistress1

First recorded in 1490–1500; school 1 + mistress
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Example Sentences

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“I didn’t want her to look like a grump schoolmistress,” Atwood said.

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Dynamic, too, was Nicole Car as the widowed schoolmistress with hopeless belief in Grimes’s salvation.

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"She was rather like a schoolmistress, actually because, we were young girls - 17, 18... You know, if your Millennium Falcons weren't touching, 'Come on girls, what's going off here? We've got to get this out!'"

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There’s the occasional sharp moment to remind us of the character’s inner fires, but mostly she plays it cool and oddly small-scale, like an overly qualified schoolmistress who happens to find herself ruling an empire.

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Trump has grown frustrated by the prime minister’s ‘schoolmistress’ manner.

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