(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(n.) A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.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.
Suitor
Definition:
(n.) One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.
(n.) Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.
(n.) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc.
(n.) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a suitor for the hand of a beautiful princess, you’ll have to overcome the royal family, the palace guards and rival players to deliver your love letter.
(2) If only the suitors could find the words and the means.
(3) With Robert Snodgrass having only 18 months remaining on his contract, the manager’s biggest battle looks certain to be a tug of war with the gifted Scotland winger’s assorted suitors.
(4) The company's 340-strong workforce, including 120 at its Corby factory, were left with an uncertain future after a firm offer failed to materialise from a suitor in Hong Kong, its distributor YGM Trading, despite an informal agreement being signed.
(5) Ramsey said one of the reasons he resisted offers from other suitors, including Manchester United, was that Arsenal are renowned for giving teenage players plenty of first-team action.
(6) The £140m cost for United – or any prospective suitor – would be the transfer fee of around £60m and his basic wage, should he agree to around £380,000 a-week as a gross figure, which on a four-year contract amounts to £79m.
(7) Vinterberg's version stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, while Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Matthias Schoenarts play the contrasting suitors who jockey for her attention.
(8) The potential suitors include RTL, owner of Channel Five, and Italy's Mediaset.
(9) If García leaves, then he is unlikely to be short of potential suitors.
(10) It was reported that during the last three days discussions had been taking place with a potential UK banking suitor.
(11) I would say so, yes,” said Martínez on Byram having rival suitors.
(12) That could mean any potential suitors are able to purchase him for less, although Gladbach are understood to be preparing to offer him a new deal.
(13) In Croatia, Arsenal are being mentioned more often than any other potential suitor and now that Arsène Wenger has won something again, is it finally time for him to bring in a world-class striker?
(14) Previous suitors have reportedly included Lloyds Development Capital.
(15) Successive cables show the US embassy in Zagreb monitoring the 2006 takeover of Pliva, one of the largest drugmakers in Central and Eastern Europe , by US based Barr Pharmaceuticals, which won a bidding war with a rival Icelandic suitor, Actavis.
(16) Gaston is the Beast’s rival suitor for Belle, the young girl played by Emma Watson .
(17) When further questioned as to whether this view would rule BT out as a Channel 5 suitor in the short term, Petter said: "It counts us out for any term."
(18) Having made his league debut only at the end of October, Sanches was rewarded with a new contract containing a release clause of €45m a few weeks later to ward off any potential suitors.
(19) The 21-year-old has scored two goals and created two in the league so far and produced another influential display in last weekend’s 3-1 defeat of Chelsea , albeit with his contribution overshadowed by the champions’ malaise, Steven Naismith’s hat-trick and John Stones’ display against his summer suitors.
(20) She’s shortly followed by her suitor, a huge fellow determined to win her over by marking his territory on every tree he can find.