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headmistress
[hed-mis-tris]
noun
a woman in charge of a private school.
headmistress
/ ˌɛˈٰə /
noun
Gender-neutral form: head teacher.a female principal of a school
Gender Note
Other Word Forms
- headmistress-ship noun
- ˌˈٰˌ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of headmistress1
Example Sentences
Horace Zwender, there is no dearth of likely suspects: He has wronged everyone from his college girlfriend to the academy’s headmistress; he has abused girls at multiple schools.
Neither the stage production nor the musical can do much with the melodramatic Madame Morrible, the headmistress at Shiz who becomes a key player in the Wonderful Wizard of Oz’s fascist machinations.
Her headmistress was angry, complaining that her former pupil was throwing her life away.
“Miss Trunchbull is the evil headmistress. They only exist in a children’s book.”
She’s the headmistress of a school that is literally collapsing, and her marriage to Dave is in peril because the couple has buried their grief after losing a child.
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