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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“That I will, Adèle;” and I hastened away with her, glad to quit my gloomy monitress.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
"Jolly good thing you are to be separated, I think, if I'm to be your dormitory monitress," replied the head girl, with a smile that took the sting out of her words.
From Just Gerry by Chaundler, Christine
As monitress of the upper landing she had the whole of the third class under her care, and, seeing one of her charges in such distress, she came at once to enquire the cause.
From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Brazil, Angela
You don't mean to say you are going to be our monitress this term?
From Just Gerry by Chaundler, Christine
At sundown a monitress, mounting the night tower, by a loophole of the stair looking down on the great rock saints, spied a figure kneeling devoutly.
From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence
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