MISTRESS

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Traducere în limba română

mistress substantiv

1. stăpână (a casei); (fig.) regină, suverană, stăpână;

mistress of the Adriatic Veneţia.

2. (presc. Mrs.) doamnă (înaintea numelui de familie al unei femei măritate nu se scrie decât prescurtat); (fam.) cuconiţă, cucoană.

3. meşteră, meşteriţă, specialistă.

4. învăţătoare, institutoare; profesoară;

mathematics mistress profesoară de matematică.

5. directoare.

6. (înv., poetic) iubită, amantă; ibovnică.

I told you I am independent, sir, as well as rich: I am my own mistress.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“You are not so old, Jip, are you, that you'll leave your mistress yet?” said Dora.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Had I the command of millions, were I mistress of the whole world, your brother would be my only choice.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

That was the reason why Marie had left her mistress.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Do you mean to say that my mistress has told a lie?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Where is your mistress?’ I asked.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Certainly, ma'am," replied Elinor, not hearing much of what she said, and more anxious to be alone, than to be mistress of the subject.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

And ever since she was twelve, Emma has been mistress of the house and of you all.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“If the master and mistress do not attend themselves, there must be more harm than good in the custom.”

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

And of this place, thought she, I might have been mistress!

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)