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headmistress

noun

Definition of headmistress

as in teacher

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Recent Examples of headmistress Broadway veteran Carole Shelley set the standard for the villainous headmistress Madame Morrible. — Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 23 Nov. 2025 In the film, Madame Morrible, the headmistress of Shiz University, keeps her stark white hair in an intricate updo, careful not to let too much of it down. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 13 Nov. 2025 Exhausted from filling in as headmistress at her school, Olga tries to hold the fraying family together. — Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025 Marilee is headmistress of a private girls’ school in Baltimore where Gail has been assistant head for 11 years. — Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for headmistress

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Presley told the Board of Managers that over the last few months, the district has hired 142 uncertified teachers.

— Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 July 2026
For fans, watching players who are college students, doctors, teachers and company workers is part of the appeal – and a contrast with the Chinese Super League.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 21 July 2026

Definition of teacher

Noun

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.

— Christina Newland, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2024
Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

— Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Sep. 2024

Definition of schoolmistress

Noun

She was cast as Athena, the class ‘troublemaker’ was Odysseus, and the school’s headmaster bumbled around, one-eyed, as the Cyclops.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
Season 2 will once again explore the complicated friendship between pickpocketing genius Gabriel (Lucas Leach) and Penelope (Carmel Laniado), who is the daughter of Crookhaven School headmaster Caspian Lockett (Dougray Scott).

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 July 2026

Definition of headmaster

Noun

No ruler-wielding schoolmarm can impart the urgency of learning the way hunger can.

— John Phillips, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board took note of the hard-right’s distress, let down its tightly wound schoolmarm bun and snickered right out loud.

— Pat Beall, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2025

Definition of schoolmarm

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In response to Schettino inviting his mistress to the bridge with him on the night of the crash, the agencies also limited bridge access to only essential crew members.

— Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
The Getty Suite speaks for itself with its throne-like chairs, opulent tapestries, carved rose wooden ceiling and connecting door into the Medici Suite (CH) where Getty put up some of his mistresses.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2026

Definition of mistress

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The retired schoolteacher had ridden at the more than 27,000-acre off-road area numerous times before and was eager to try out her new bike, a gray-and-white Kawasaki KLX 300R dirt bike, according to the outlets.

— Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
Goforth retired from her job as a schoolteacher, most recently at Albert Baxter Elementary School in Bellflower, within the past two years, her daughter said.

— Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026

Definition of schoolteacher

Noun

In recent years, nursing has become more technologically advanced, another draw for men, says Steven Parsons, a cardiovascular operating room nurse and adjunct instructor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

— Andrea Hsu, NPR, 21 July 2026
Beyond her work in pageants, Malcolm was an actress, television presenter, and dance instructor.

— Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 20 July 2026

Definition of instructor

Noun

The union represents over 250,000 classified public school employees, like bus drivers, custodians, food service workers, para-educators, clerical staff and campus security guards.

— Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 15 July 2026
Joining Lindblad's crew is an expedition staff of largely Ecuadorian naturalists, scientists, and educators; guides who lead excursions are employed by the Parque Nacional Galápagos.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 July 2026

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