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Person in charge of a school
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headmistress
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly British English) A female school principal.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But headmistress Helen Williams won't be reaching for the champagne glasses or festive bunting. ▪ If you accept her at Lowood school, please make sure that the headmistress and teachers know how dishonest she is. ▪ She clasped ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a woman headmaster
Usage examples of headmistress.
After meeting those outspoken school chits, he could almost believe the headmistress had maneuvered him into making the wager in the first place.
The prince showed me a letter signed by Miss Selby Thomm, who is acting as the Chatterford headmistress, in which she described the home as undergoing significant modifications, the better to receive a royal visitor, and inviting him to appear for a preview on 25 July.
For that spring, while the crocuses bloomed, while the headmistress checked on the daffodil bulbs in the flower beds, Calliope, too, felt something budding.
Brodie set might easily have lost its identity at this time, not only because Miss Brodie had ceased to preside over their days which were now so brisk with the getting of knowledge from unsoulful experts, but also because the headmistress intended them to be dispersed.
After a five-minute interview Andy was talking to girls in the playground while a pallid headmistress backdated his entrance forms.
He had come back from the war and called to enquire for Miss Brodie at school, where the first person whom he encountered was Miss Mackay, the headmistress.
The two headmistresses came up to the platform~ and Rita got them chairs.
Elizabeth went out without another word, She couldn't help liking the two headmistresses, though she didn't want to at all.
And a new portrait had joined the ranks of the dead headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts: Dumbledore was slumbering in a golden frame over the desk, his half-moon spectacle perched upon his crooked nose, looking peaceful and untroubled.
The portraits of the headmasters and headmistresses were snoozing in their frames, heads lolling back in armchairs or against the edge of the.
The delicate silver instruments stood once more on the spindle-legged tables, puffing and whirring serenely The portraits of the headmasters and headmistresses were snoozing in their frames, heads lolling back in armchairs or against the edge of the picture.
The portraits of the headmasters and headmistresses were snoozing in their frames, heads lolling back in armchairs or against the edge of the picture.
The walls were covered with portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses, all of whom were snoozing gently in their frames.
However, others are more obvious, and if a sharp wife finds a card in her husbands pocket with one of the following occupations headmistress, erection and demolition expert, public relations, or even manual laborer she can usually assume the only thing getting made is himself.
Charlotte 'Annie' Moberly was principal of an Oxford college, Eleanor Jourdain the headmistress of a girls' school near London.