Mistress
Mistress is the feminine form of the English word "master" (master + -ess) and may refer to:
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Romance and relationships
- Mistress (lover), a term for a woman who is in a sexual and romantic relationship with a man who is married to a different woman
Title or form of address
- Mistress (form of address), an old-fashioned term for the lady of the house
- Ms., original abbreviation
- Mistress (college), a female head of a college
- Mistress of the Robes, the senior lady of the British Royal Household
- Female schoolmaster, also called a schoolmistress or "schoolmarm"
In ancient religions
- Isis, Egyptian goddess known as the mistress of the house of life
- Hathor, Egyptian goddess known as the mistress of the west
- Nepthys, Egyptian goddess of the underworld, known as the mistress of the temple
- Despoina, a Greek title for the mistress of the house, applied to various women and goddesses
- Potnia theron, or mistress of the animals, a title applied by Homer to the Greek goddess Artemis
- Potnia ("Mistress"), a title applied to various Greek goddesses
- Mistress of the labyrinth, in the palace of Knossos in Crete
In arts and entertainment
- Mistress (band), a sludge metal/grindcore band from Birmingham, England
- Mistress, a split-up death metal band from Germany, fronted by Angela Gossow
- Mistress (1992 film)
- Mistress (1987 film) starring Victoria Principal
- Mistresses (British TV series)
- Mistresses (American TV series), American adaptation of the UK series
- Mistress (TV series), South Korean adaptation of the UK series
- "Mistress", a song by Disturbed from Believe
- "Mistress", a song by Rebecca Ferguson from Superwoman
- "Mistress", a song by Suede from The Blue Hour
- Mistress (novel), a 2013 novel by James Patterson
Other uses
- Dominatrix, in BDSM
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