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Definitions for schoolmistress
ˈskulˌmɪs trɪsschoolmistress

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistressnoun

    a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

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  1. schoolmistressnoun

    A woman in charge of a school.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Schoolmistressnoun

    A woman who governs a school.

    Etymology: school and mistress.

    Such precepts I have selected from the most considerable which we have received from nature, that exact schoolmistress. John Dryden, Dufresnoy.

    My schoolmistress, like a vixen Turk,
    Maintains her lazy husband. John Gay, What d’ye Call it.

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  1. schoolmistress

    A schoolmistress is a female teacher in a school, especially a woman who is in charge of a private school or a headmistress in the past.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Schoolmistressnoun

    a woman who governs and teaches a school; a female school-teacher

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of schoolmistress in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of schoolmistress in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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