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Schoolmistress

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A woman who is a teacher.

n. A headmistress of a school.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A woman in charge of a school.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The mistress of a school; a woman who governs a school for children, but may or may not teach.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

Word Usage

"The schoolmistress was a gray-haired widow, fifty or more, who had outlasted two husbands, and was coping sensibly with her meager chance of finding a third, preferring to support herself rather than live with one of her daughters, stepdaughters, or daughters-in-law."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

school-teacher

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