What's the difference between headmistress and heiress?

Headmistress


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At Duncroft, according to some reports, he would stay in the headmistress's quarters.
  • (2) Alex Brightman (no relation to Sarah) plays a dissolute substitute elementary school teacher who molds his charges into a nifty band; Sierra Boggess is the headmistress of his heart.
  • (3) After two days, the headmistress told them that they all have to wear the hijab when they come to school.
  • (4) William Richardson, general secretary of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said: "We are pleased that after 17 months, Ofqual has acknowledged and begun to address some of the failings that HMC has been highlighting.
  • (5) It was also where she intended to build an academy for girls, which never happened (though Madonna still helped build classrooms), all against a backdrop of missing millions, for which Madonna's side blamed the sacked prospective academy headmistress (also the Malawian president's sister), while there has been an ongoing investigation into the role of the Kabbalah Centre in New York … and (phew) see what I mean?
  • (6) Richardson's study was commissioned by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), an association of 250 private schools including Eton and Harrow.
  • (7) The age of chivalry is dead.” The novel’s theme, deftly laid out in a narrative that flashes backwards and forwards, to and from the 1930s, is the education of six wonderfully distinctive, heartless and romantic 10-year-old girls (Monica, Sandy, Rose, Mary, Jenny, and Eunice) and the covert classroom drama that leads to Miss Brodie’s “betrayal”, her peremptory dismissal from Marcia Blaine by her great enemy, the headmistress, Miss Mackay.
  • (8) The headmistress introduced us all to Jimmy Savile and he gave us all a kiss and he stuck his tongue in my mouth.
  • (9) In a wide-ranging assault on the policies of successive governments, Tim Hands, the head of Magdalen College school who takes over as chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, told the group's annual meeting on Monday that excessive interference and obsession with league tables had "emasculated the education system of this country".
  • (10) From a fairly conventional start, Louise Bagshawe, the daughter of a stockbroker and headmistress in Sussex, went to Oxford and then into the music industry where she was accused of partying hard with Nigel Kennedy and wearing Metallica T-shirts, before being spotted by Sharon Osborne.
  • (11) When I was a kid, Thatcher was the headmistress of our country.
  • (12) Dame Suzi Leather, chair of the commission, told the annual meeting of the Headmasters and Headmistresses Conference today that due to the economic climate, private schools may need up to five years to meet the test's requirements.
  • (13) Andrew Grant, chair of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, said politicians and other critics of the fee-paying system should be grateful for the money parents are saving for the state sector.
  • (14) Forcing a woman to wear a veil has become illegal after a village school headmistress received sexually coloured remarks from an education official for having her hair uncovered.
  • (15) The real significance of Suzi Leather's comments to the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference is that there has been no change of view in the commission on wider public benefit versus bursaries.
  • (16) His mother was headmistress of the primary school, and had served as mayor.
  • (17) Her headmistress told her, "You have brought shame and disgrace on to this school."
  • (18) "When I was a kid, Thatcher was the headmistress of our country," Brand wrote.
  • (19) This was about Burke's early reference to her as Harry Potter headmistress Dolores Umbridge.
  • (20) "Both my mother and my school headmistress felt I would be wasting my education by going into the church," she told one interviewer.

Heiress


Definition:

  • (n.) A female heir.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the left is the favourite, Spanish-born Hidalgo, 54, protégée of current mayor Bertrand Delanoë and disparagingly referred to as la dauphine (the heiress).
  • (2) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
  • (3) Around the same time, the motor racing heiress Tamara Ecclestone totted up a champagne bill of £30,000 in one evening.
  • (4) Trump’s eldest daughter, heiress-apparent to her father’s real estate empire, said she had worked with him for more than a decade and seen him hire people from “all walks of life”.
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Marjorie Merriweather Post, the cereal heiress who had Mar-a-Lago built in 1927.
  • (6) Alan M Dershowitz, who has represented heiress Patty Hearst and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, is asking to represent the 81-year-old director of Chinatown and The Pianist in the Los Angeles county superior court.
  • (7) Sobchak was once dubbed the Paris Hilton of Russia because of her similarity to the American hotel heiress.
  • (8) In 2010 Mediapart, which is run by veteran French newspaper and agency journalists, broke the story of an alleged party funding scandal around Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party and the L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt.
  • (9) France's richest woman, L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, and her daughter have called a truce in the three-year family feud that sparked a political crisis.
  • (10) When Carla Bruni-Sarkozy – a millionaire heiress who once made over £4m a year as a supermodel – became France's first lady, commentators whispered that she might be attacked as a kind of modern-day Marie Antoinette.
  • (11) Shortly afterwards, the heiress's former bookkeeper claimed Bettencourt had made illegal cash donations to Sarkozy's 2007 presidential election campaign, an allegation vehemently denied by the French leader and his entourage.
  • (12) While some are already privately owned, such as Skorpios by the Onassis shipping heiress Athina Onassis, the state owns islands such as Fleves, which is near the coastal resort area of Vouliagmeni, and a cluster of three islands near Corfu.
  • (13) The mansion was built by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1927, at a cost of $7m.
  • (14) Another example explains the structure the bank proposed for a British client: “A new Liberian Company that we shall open for ESD reasons, as the client is Greek and UK resident … transfer all assets from the named accounts to the Corp. account” it notes for a retail heiress with £8m.
  • (15) Suchlike scribbling formed a seedbed for the art Twombly developed after he returned to Italy in 1957 and married an heiress.
  • (16) An export bar was placed on the Van Dyck last November , temporarily halting its sale to the Los Angeles-based financier James Stunt, husband of the heiress Tamara Ecclestone.
  • (17) As the 29-year-old heiress to one of the wealthiest real-estate dynasties in south-east Asia, IGB of Malaysia, she’s part of a fast-growing group in Britain: the big-money investor getting into independent eateries.
  • (18) 2 Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playlist Paris Hilton is the target; her dog kills itself and the heiress's supposed vacuity is ridiculed in catchy songs.
  • (19) HMRC does not publish names, but the roll call of declared non-doms includes the Tetra Pak heiress Sigrid Rausing, the financier Ben Goldsmith, the Dragons’ Den entrepreneur James Caan, and the newspaper owner Viscount Rothermere, who inherited his French nationality, along with the Daily Mail newspaper, from his father.
  • (20) Sarkozy, who was under investigation for allegedly accepting cash from the L'Oréal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, 90, was told there was no case to answer and he would not be sent for trial.

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