Governess vs. Mistress

Governessnoun

A woman paid to educate children in their own home.

Governessnoun

(rare) A female governor.

Governessverb

To work as governess; to educate children in their own home.

Governessnoun

A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, - usually in their homes.

Governessnoun

a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home)

Governessnoun

(especially in former times) a woman employed to teach children in a private household.

Governess

A governess is a woman employed to teach and train children in a private household. In contrast to a nanny (formerly called a nurse), she concentrates on teaching children, rather than caring for their physical needs.

Mistressnoun

A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership.

Mistressnoun

A female teacher.

Mistressnoun

The other woman in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.

Mistressnoun

A dominatrix.

Mistressnoun

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

Mistressnoun

A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart.

Mistressnoun

(Scotland) A married woman; a wife.

Mistressnoun

(obsolete) The jack in the game of bowls.

Mistressnoun

A female companion to a master a man with control, authority or ownership

Mistressverb

Of a woman: to master; to learn or develop to a high degree of proficiency.

Mistressverb

(intransitive) To act or take the role of a mistress.

Mistressnoun

A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.

Mistressnoun

A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

Mistressnoun

A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.

Mistressnoun

A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a woman having an ongoing usually exclusive sexual relationship with a man, who may provide her with financial support in return; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually; as, both his wife and his mistress attended his funeral.

Mistressnoun

A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.

Mistressnoun

A married woman; a wife.

Mistressnoun

The old name of the jack at bowls.

Mistressverb

To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

Mistressnoun

an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man

Mistressnoun

a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict)

Mistressnoun

a woman master who directs the work of others