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matron
[mey-truhn]
noun
a married woman, especially one who is mature and staid or dignified and has an established social position.
a woman who has charge of the domestic affairs of a hospital, prison, or other institution.
a woman serving as a guard, warden, or attendant for women or girls, as in a prison.
matron
/ ˈɪٰə /
noun
a married woman regarded as staid or dignified, esp a middle-aged woman with children
a woman in charge of the domestic or medical arrangements in an institution, such as a boarding school
a wardress in a prison
Official name: nursing officer.the former name for the administrative head of the nursing staff in a hospital
Other Word Forms
- matronal adjective
- matronhood noun
- matronship noun
- ˈٰDz-ˌ adjective
- ˈٰDzˌǴǻ noun
- ˈٰDzԲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of matron1
Word History and Origins
Origin of matron1
Example Sentences
Seema cosplaying a garden society matron certainly isn’t the worst vision this show has served.
She arrived for breakfast looking elegant in a black-and-white caftan, the picture of an Upper West Side matron, a matron without a sizable body count.
“Staff didn’t have time to process or accept the losses,” the lead ICU matron at one large teaching hospital told Prof Fong.
It was the paediatric matron in Bridgend who spotted the lie about her qualification date, while checking her registration code which all nurses, midwives and nurse associates must have to work in the UK.
Four months after she started work, the unit's matron became suspicious after a check on Nasir's nursing registration code showed she had qualified four years later than she stated on her application form.
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