schoolmistress
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- noun
- /ˈskuːlˌmɪstrəs/
:
maestra
- But Lucy and I have been friends since we were children... ...and she has never minded that I am only a schoolmistress.
Examples
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Miss Green is known as a strict schoolmistress who expects the best from her students.
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At noon each Saturday, the schoolmistress presented each student with a written report on her performance for the week.
Academic text (1998) -
Miriam, my favorite of the sisters, a schoolmistress in Ohio, had died, too, of a sudden fever just before Christmas.
Fiction book (1999) -
The schoolmistress will have a cottage paid for by benefactors and she'll receive £15 a year.
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The schoolmistress, with a remark about the science of etymology, had set Amedee to thinking about his name, and in time he had asked Rose where it came from.
Fiction book (2002) -
Fancy has only just taken up a new post as schoolmistress, and in this spectacular scene of visual illumination, the choir begins to sing outside the schoolhouse in the dead of night.
Academic text (2016) -
She was the figure of the schoolmistress missing in his lonely self-education; she was the abstract image of authority that, resented all your life or not, you had to turn to in your powerlessness.
Fiction book (1994) -
The schoolmistress disciplined her students firmly but fairly, ensuring they understood the importance of respect.
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Students often feared the schoolmistress because of her strict rules and high standards in the classroom.
Synonyms
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A person who gives lessons to students in a school or college
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A person who helps children or teenagers learn at school
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A person who works at a school and helps children learn
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A woman who teaches in a school and is often strict
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9.8
A woman schoolteacher who is strict and seen as old-fashioned
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A teacher who teaches children and young people, often strict or formal
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9.9
A friendly name for a woman teacher used by students
A female teacher who is strict and old-fashioned
A teacher who helps children or young people learn
Antonyms
How Old-Fashioned
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Schoolmistress comes from the two simple words school ('place to learn') and mistress (the female form of master, meaning 'a woman in charge'). So it literally means the 'woman in charge of a school', which is why it refers to a female teacher who often has authority.