schoolmistress

American  

[skool-mis-tris] / ˈskulˌmɪs trɪs /

noun

1. a woman who presides over or teaches in a school.

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schoolmistress British  

/ ˈskuːlˌmɪstrɪs /

noun

1. a woman who teaches in or runs a school

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Gender

See -ess.

Other Word Forms

• schoolmistressy
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of schoolmistress

First recorded in 1490–1500; school ¹ + mistress

Example Sentences

Now Schoolmistress McMahon's leg is mending well, though she is still not sure how soon she can go home.

From Time Magazine Archive

When his affair with Schoolmistress Alice Moore created a national scandal, he coined and widely promoted an epigram on gossips: "When in doubt, mind your own business."

From Time Magazine Archive

The good news for the lollipop trade: Madeline is back, with her eleven straight-living little boarding-school friends and the noble Schoolmistress Clavel, in a rousing sequel.

From Time Magazine Archive

He published, in 1741, his Judgment of Hercules, addressed to Mr. Lyttelton, whose interest he supported with great warmth at an election: this was next year followed by the Schoolmistress.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel

Next after "The Schoolmistress," the most engaging of Shenstone's poems is his "Pastoral Ballad," written in 1743 in four parts and in a tripping anapestic measure.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)