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Meanings of mistress in English

Russian
любовница
Portuguese
amante
Spanish
amante
Catalan
amant
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Female who is in a sexual relationship, where the other or both parties to the relationship are also in another committed relationship (usually marriage)

        Related terms
        любовница
        Portuguese
        professora
        Catalan
        mestra
        Spanish
        maestra

        A woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

              professora
              Portuguese
              directoria
              Catalan
              amant
              Spanish
              amante

              An adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man.

                    directoria
                    Usage of mistress in English
                    1
                    Tentatively, he began, 'I do not question your mistress's wisdom and power.
                    Blood and Bone
                    2
                    Jake said, Anita could try to break you free of your mistress.
                    Crimson Death
                    3
                    Before he could answer, Robin said, My mistress wishes to meet you.
                    Discord's apple
                    4
                    Shortly the mistress of the house came in and ordered the supper.
                    Biography of a Slave, Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thom...
                    5
                    And in the hospital in England Common suddenly saw his mistress again.
                    The Sunny Side
                    6
                    It worked out, in fact, in the mistress of the Grand Duke.
                    The Good Soldier
                    7
                    The Saxon mistress had at least some small affinity for the sea.
                    The captive
                    8
                    The servants left immediately to prepare the house for their mistress's arrival.
                    Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
                    9
                    And Bagoas searches for my mistress in the folds of the valley.
                    Judith, a Play in Three Acts; Founded on the Apocryphal Book of ...
                    10
                    Our new mistress was the wife of a general of the Commune.
                    Parisian Points of View
                    11
                    His mistress was the only obstacle in the way of this plan.
                    Saint Augustin
                    12
                    She was the favourite mistress of the Duke of Wurtemburg in 1757.
                    The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
                    13
                    She had become their new riding mistress while their father was gone.
                    Legacy: a novel
                    14
                    Each plantation had a double head in the master and the mistress.
                    American Negro Slavery / A Survey of the Supply, Employment and ...
                    15
                    The mistress lacks us not just now; the guests are provided for.
                    Maruja
                    16
                    In this matter she had the full co-operation of the new mistress.
                    Monitress Merle
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                    Mistress through the time
                    Mistress across language varieties
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