What's the difference between heiress and mistress?

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.

Mistress


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
  • (n.) A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
  • (n.) A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.
  • (n.) A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.
  • (n.) A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.
  • (n.) A married woman; a wife.
  • (n.) The old name of the jack at bowls.
  • (v. i.) To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
  • (2) My art mistress at school was a wonderful woman called Jean Stevenson.
  • (3) Mussolini and his mistress hung upside down in Milan by Italian partisans.
  • (4) In Russia they do the same thing, it’s just there they call it having a mistress.
  • (5) They must be Masters - or Mistresses - of the Arts.
  • (6) Nor do I care if he got off on any activity with Mistress Pain.
  • (7) Violence was nothing unusual among 17th-century artists – Bernini once hired a hitman to slash the face of an unfaithful mistress, while Giovanni Castiglione attempted to throw his own sister off a roof – but Caravaggio was a repeat offender.
  • (8) "This is mainly by reason of her involvement with Mr Huhne, both professionally as his press agent and personally as his secret mistress, in circumstances where he campaigned with a leaflet to the electorate of Eastleigh about how much he valued his family."
  • (9) Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the former NBA star who was the subject of some of Sterling’s remarks, said on Twitter: “Commissioner Silver showed great leadership in banning LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life.” The real estate mogul’s punishment was announced almost four days after he was heard on a recording released by TMZ telling his mistress, V Stiviano, to stop bringing black guests to Clippers games.
  • (10) The first was delivered by Tim Hands , the headmaster of Magdalen College school since 2008, and given to mark Hands's elevation to chairmanship of the Headmasters and Mistresses Conference , which represents the prosperous elite of Britain's independent schools, including Eton and Roedean.
  • (11) Guy Claxton Teachers as we know from many decades are past masters and mistresses at subverting things that they are told to do, but they don't buy.
  • (12) The track has since been dissected by fans and critics as his final outpouring of turmoil after facing an impossible choice between his wife and his mistress.
  • (13) Two years later, the production and arrangement entirely in Bush's hands, came her wholly unfettered mistress-piece: The Dreaming .
  • (14) In 12 Years a Slave, however, this reassuring cliche is overthrown, and the relationship between Mistress Epps (Sarah Paulson) and Patsey (Lupita Nyong'o) makes a mockery of the one between Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) and Prissy (Butterfly McQueen).
  • (15) Mistress Epps is humiliated by her husband's sexual obsession with Patsey, and, unable to punish her husband, she brutalises the young woman with a savagery that made me jump out of my seat.
  • (16) Washington has long been a fan of the petro-dollar and Obama is proving another fickle enthusiast, flirting with the industry one moment, even as he snaps at it the next – like the coquettish mistress of an oil tycoon.
  • (17) Silver had promised quick resolutions, and he was not kidding, especially since it was only Friday when the gossip site TMZ released the audio recordings of an emotionally abusive Sterling attempting to badger his mistress into not attending games with African-American men , in this particular case NBA basketball legend and Los Angeles Dodgers partial owner Magic Johnson.
  • (18) In Cover Her Face , the victim is an unmarried mother, charitably employed by the mistress of the manor (the house is still in family hands) as a parlourmaid, on the commendation of the warden of a refuge for "delinquent" girls.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest On watching Mistress America, I filed it as a riff on Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s , with Brooke in the role of a 21st-century Holly Golightly.
  • (20) Most of the employed drivers in Saudi Arabia have no say over where they go, they merely do their mistresses' bidding.