as in concubine
a female other than his wife with whom a married man has a continuing sexual relationship
he lavished gifts upon his mistress but completely ignored his wife
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Recent Examples of mistress
Between the running and reading is the music, the ever-present mistress in his life and the only thing that's been around longer than his beloved wife.
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Otto Rabe, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2025
The 1980s saw her win praise for her performance as Claretta Petacci, the mistress of Benito Mussolini, in Squitieri’s Claretta (1984), while other credits of note included Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo as the love interest of Klaus Kinski.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
The images were shot by David Sims at the Pavillon de Musique de la Comtesse du Barry, the reception space in Louveciennes built for Madame du Barry, the official mistress of King Louis XV.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
The fact that Earhart started out as Putnam's mistress contradicted Shapiro's early squeaky-clean image of Earhart and drove her to delve deeper into the life of this extraordinary woman.
—ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
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Otto Rabe, Cincinnati Enquirer, 24 Sep. 2025
The 1980s saw her win praise for her performance as Claretta Petacci, the mistress of Benito Mussolini, in Squitieri’s Claretta (1984), while other credits of note included Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo as the love interest of Klaus Kinski.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2025
The images were shot by David Sims at the Pavillon de Musique de la Comtesse du Barry, the reception space in Louveciennes built for Madame du Barry, the official mistress of King Louis XV.
—Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 22 Sep. 2025
The fact that Earhart started out as Putnam's mistress contradicted Shapiro's early squeaky-clean image of Earhart and drove her to delve deeper into the life of this extraordinary woman.
—ArsTechnica, 17 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mistress
Noun
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But experts say the male-only succession system is structurally flawed and only worked previously thanks to the help of concubines who, until about 100 years ago, produced imperial children.—
Mari Yamaguchi,
Twin Cities,
6 Sep. 2025
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Some of them were married (or given as concubines) to Inca nobles, others became priestesses, and some ended up as human sacrifices.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Season 3 found Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) in a friends-to-lovers arc with neighbor Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), who’d harbored a crush on him for years.—
Ryan Schwartz,
TVLine,
13 Oct. 2025
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Meanwhile, star-crossed lovers Ellen (Harriet Slater) and Brian (Jamie Roy) managed to plot an escape of their own — but not before getting some major blood on their hands.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
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“Mistress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mistress. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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