Mistress vs. Concubine

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A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.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

Concubinenoun

A sexual partner, especially a woman, to whom one is not or cannot be married.

Concubinenoun

A woman who lives with a man, but who is not a wife.

Concubinenoun

A slave-girl or woman, kept for instance in a harem, who is held for sexual service.

Concubinenoun

A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.

Concubinenoun

A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father.

Concubinenoun

a woman who cohabits with an important man

Concubinenoun

(in polygamous societies) a woman who lives with a man but has lower status than his wife or wives.

Concubinenoun

a mistress.