Misteresses vs. Mistresses — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Misteresses and Mistresses
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Definitions
Misteresses
Plural of misteress
Mistresses
A woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a man who is married to someone else.
Mistresses
A woman in a position of authority, control, or ownership, as the head of a household
"Thirteen years had seen her mistress of Kellynch Hall" (Jane Austen).
Mistresses
A woman who owns or keeps an animal
A cat sitting in its mistress's lap.
Mistresses
A woman who owns a slave.
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Mistresses
A woman with ultimate control over something
The mistress of her own mind.
Mistresses
A nation or country that has supremacy over others
Great Britain, once the mistress of the seas.
Mistresses
Something personified as female that directs or reigns
"my mistress ... the open road" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
Mistresses
A woman who has mastered a skill or branch of learning
A mistress of the culinary art.
Mistresses
Mistress Used formerly as a courtesy title when speaking to or of a woman.
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Mistresses
Chiefly British A woman schoolteacher.
Mistresses
Plural of mistress
