Mistress is the feminine form of the English word "master" (''master'' + ''-ess'') and may refer to:
Romance and relationships
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Mistress (lover)
A mistress is a woman who is in a relatively long-term sexual and romantic relationship with a man who is married to a different woman.
Description
A mistress is in a long-term relationship with her attached mister, and is often referred to ...
, a female lover of a married man
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Royal mistress
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Maîtresse-en-titre, official mistress of a French king
Title or form of address
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Mistress (form of address)
Mistress is an old form of address for a woman. It implies "lady of the house", especially a woman who is head of a household with domestic workers.
An example is Mistress Quickly in Shakespeare's ''The Merry Wives of Windsor''. The title did not ...
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Mistress (college)
A master (more generically called a head of house or head of college) is the head or senior member of a college within a collegiate university, principally in the United Kingdom.
The actual title of the head of a college varies widely between i ...
, a female college head
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Mistress of the Robes of the UK Royal Household
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schoolmaster
In ancient religions
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Despoina, a Greek goddess referred to as "the mistress"
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Potnia ("mistress lady"), a title for a Greek goddess
In arts and entertainment
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Mistress (band)
Mistress were a British extreme metal band from Birmingham, England. The members of this five-piece band adopted pseudonyms as stage-names including: Drunken and Misery on guitars, Dirty Von Arse on bass, Dave Cunt on vocals and Migg on drums. ...
, a band from Birmingham, England
* ''Mistress'', a band from Germany, fronted by
Angela Gossow
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''Mistress'' (1992 film)
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''Mistress'' (1987 film)
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''Mistresses'' (British TV series)
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''Mistresses'' (American TV series)
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''Mistress'' (TV series)
* "Mistress", a song by Disturbed from ''
Believe
Believe may refer to:
*Belief, a psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true, with or without proof for such proposition
*Faith, a belief in something which has not been proven
Arts, entertainment, and me ...
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* "Mistress", a song by Rebecca Ferguson from ''
Superwoman''
* "Mistress", a song by Suede from ''
The Blue Hour''
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''Mistress'' (novel), by James Patterson, 2013
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Mistress Isabelle Brooks
Mistress Isabelle Brooks (real first name Israel; born July 14, 1998) is an American drag queen who competed on the fifteenth season of the television show ''RuPaul's Drag Race''. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she started doing drag as a ...
, American drag queen
Other uses
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Dominatrix, in BDSM
See also
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The Mistress (disambiguation) The Mistress can refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Mistress'' (TV series), a British sitcom
* ''The Mistress'' (1927 film), a silent German film
* ''The Mistress'' (1962 film), a 1962 Swedish film
* ''The Mistress'' (2012 film), a 2012 F ...
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