Noun mistress has 3 senses
  1. mistress, kept woman, fancy woman - an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man
    --1 is a kind of woman, adult female; lover
    --1 has particulars:
     chachka, tchotchke; concubine, courtesan, doxy, odalisque, paramour; Braun, Eva Braun; Delilah
  2. schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistress - a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)
    --2 is a kind of schoolteacher, school teacher
  3. mistress - a woman master who directs the work of others
    --3 is a kind of
    employer
    --3 has particulars: chatelaine
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