mistress
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- noun
- /ˈmɪstrəs/
- NSFW
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amante
- The King is unhappy with his mistress and seeks revelry to lift his spirits.
- become a mistress
- wife and mistress
- former mistress
Donald Trump has three wives and his mistresses don't include Cleopatra.
- Donald Trump has three wives and his mistresses don't include Cleopatra.
- She put her ex-husband and his mistress and their little child on blast.
- And he's talking to his mistress Rita, and he says this.
- I think my husband's mistress thinks he is richer than he actually is.
- I swear, it's lucky you're Lorne's mistress, Joyce.
- This one is titled I proposed to my dead husband's mistress after meeting her at the funeral.
- That letter was not addressed to his wife, to one of his four mistresses.
- It is the house that was built by William Randolph Hearst for his for his mistress.
- When I was in the midst of this affair with the secret apartment where the mistress was being kept.
- And in the middle of it, her husband tells the wife and our entire audience and the world that his mistress was pregnant.
Examples
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Lateesha was one of Claremont's many mistresses.
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My husband and his mistress.
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Boss brought his mistress to the Christmas party, not left his wife and kids at home.
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One child by a mistress.
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And you know why I have a mistress?
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Another thing to consider is that a lot of men will be quicker to get a new mistress than to get a new wife.
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He's got a mistress, all right.
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That's what you get for having a wife and a mistress.
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He's got a family, he's got a mistress.
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After many years of being a secret, she finally accepted her role as his mistress.
Synonyms
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A person who has a romantic or sexual relationship with someone
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A woman who lives with a man she is not married to and has less respect than his wife
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A person who has a secret romantic relationship, often outside marriage
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A woman who a lover pays for, often when he is married to someone else
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A woman who has a sexual relationship with a man who supports her financially
Compounds
How Legal
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- Specialized
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- Archaic
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- NSFW
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mistress comes from the same root as master with the female ending -ess, so it originally meant 'female master'. Over time it also came to mean a man's secret or 'kept' partner, because she held a special, private position in his life.