mistress

Definitions of mistress in various dictionaries:

noun - an adulterous woman

noun - a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

noun - a woman master who directs the work of others

A woman in a position of authority, control, or ownership, as the head of a household: “Thirteen years had seen her mistress of Kellynch Hall” (Jane Austen).

A woman owner of an animal or a slave.

A woman with ultimate control over something: the mistress of her own mind.

A nation or country that has supremacy over others: Great Britain, once the mistress of the seas.

Something personified as female that directs or reigns: “my mistress... the open road” (Robert Louis Stevenson).

A woman who has mastered a skill or a branch of learning: a mistress of the culinary art.

A woman who has a continuing sexual relationship with a usually married man who is not her husband and from whom she generally receives material support.

A woman schoolteacher.

noun - a woman in a position of authority