Crossword-Solution: MISTRESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mistress | n. | A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. |
| Mistress | n. | A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it. |
| Mistress | n. | A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart. |
| Mistress | n. | A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually. |
| Mistress | n. | A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman. |
| Mistress | n. | A married woman; a wife. |
| Mistress | n. | The old name of the jack at bowls. |
| Mistress | v. i. | To wait upon a mistress; to be courting. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MISTRESS (5)
The maidens, aggravated by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock who roused their mistress so early.
And here I saw what I had never seen before; it was a white face beaming with the most kindly emotions; it was the face of my new mistress, Sophia Auld.
Mistress, how can any one think that?—that I could bite the hand that fed me!” The tears trickled down on the old man’s beard.
There were, however, no grounds for retaining such a supposition, for the waggon, though going in the direction of Weatherbury, might be going beyond it, and the woman alluded to seemed to be the mistress of some estate.
Then touching the shoulder of a townsman who stood near to him, he addressed him in a formal and courteous manner: “I pray you, good Sir,” said he, “who is this woman?—and wherefore is she here set up to public shame?” “You must needs be a stranger in this region, friend,” answered the townsman, looking curiously at the questioner and his savage companion, “else you would surely have heard of Mistress Hester Prynne and her evil doings.
Quotes with MISTRESS (3)
No!" he cried and his face pinched with frustration and pain. "I don't want to hear more reasons why we shouldn't be together. No more confessions to explain why you want to run away from what we share." "Julian," she attempted to interrupt again, but he held up a trembling hand. His dark gaze held hers. "I have moved heaven and earth to bring you back to me. I refuse to let you leave again. You are mine and you shall be mine for the rest of my life. Not as my mistress, but a…
Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd;Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1951–2016).