monitress
Americannoun
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a female student who helps keep order or assists a teacher in school.
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a girl or woman who admonishes, especially with reference to conduct.
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of monitress
Example Sentences
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Chapter of Faults," at which the monitress is honor-bound to report all lapses observed during the past week: "In charity I accuse Sister�of the fault of doing .
From Time Magazine Archive
“That I will, Adèle;” and I hastened away with her, glad to quit my gloomy monitress.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Ella, though a monitress, never pushed her authority, and indeed was sometimes hardly self-assertive enough for her post.
From The Girls of St. Cyprian's A Tale of School Life by Brazil, Angela
"Write, and I will wait to take it," said the voice, and the prisoner, as might be imagined, was not long in obeying the request of his unseen monitress.
From The Strange Story of Rab R?by by J?kai, M?r
This was Muriel Paget, head girl of Wakehurst Priory, prefect and monitress as well, and Phyllis left for the moment her inquisition of the occupant of Cubicle Thirteen, to join in the chorus of welcome.
From Just Gerry by Chaundler, Christine
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