Mistress

• Mistress (lover)
  Mistress (lover)
  A mistress is a long-term female lover and companion who is not married to her partner; the term is used especially when her partner is married. The relationship generally is stable and at least semi-permanent; however, the couple does not live together openly. Also the relationship is usually,...
  
  , a woman, other than the spouse, with whom a married individual has a continuing sexual relationship
• Schoolmistress, or female school teacher (also called a "schoolmarm"). The term is now obsolete in the UK; see schoolmaster
  Schoolmaster
  A schoolmaster, or simply master, once referred to a male school teacher. This usage survives in British public schools, but is generally obsolete elsewhere.The teacher in charge of a school is the headmaster...
  
  
• A dominatrix
  Dominatrix
  Dominatrix or mistress is a woman or women who takes the dominant role in bondage, discipline and sadomasochism, or BDSM. A common form of address for a submissive to a dominatrix is "mistress", "ma'am", "domina" or "maîtresse"...
  
   in BDSM

Title or form of address

• Mistress (form of address)
  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.An example is Mistress Quickly in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. The title did not necessarily distinguish between married and unmarried women.The title Mrs. is...
  
  , an old-fashioned term for the lady of the house, especially one who is head of the household
• Mrs
  MRS
  MRS can refer to:* Magnetic resonance spectroscopy* Mandibular repositioning splint* Marginal rate of substitution, in economics* Marseille Provence Airport, IATA airport code* Materials Research Society* Melbourne Rectangular Stadium...
  
  , original abbreviation
• Mistress (college), a female head of a college
  • List of Mistresses of Girton College, Cambridge
• Mistress of the Robes
  Mistress of the Robes
  The Mistress of the Robes is the senior lady of the British Royal Household. Formerly responsible for the Queen's clothes and jewellery, the post now has the responsibility for arranging the rota of attendance of the Ladies in Waiting on the Queen, along with various duties at State ceremonies...
  
  , the senior lady of the British Royal Household

Ancient religions

• Mistress of the house of life, a title of the Egyptian goddess Isis
  Isis
  Isis or in original more likely Aset is a goddess in Ancient Egyptian religious beliefs, whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife as well as the matron of nature and magic...
  
  
• Mistress of the west. The Egyptian goddess Hathor
  Hathor
  Hathor , is an Ancient Egyptian goddess who personified the principles of love, beauty, music, motherhood and joy. She was one of the most important and popular deities throughout the history of Ancient Egypt...
  
  
• Mistress of the temple,the Egyptian Goddess of the underworld Nepthys.
• Mistress of the labyrinth, the lady of the labyrinth
  Labyrinth
  In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos...
  
  , in the palace of Knossos
  Knossos
  Knossos , also known as Labyrinth, or Knossos Palace, is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and probably the ceremonial and political centre of the Minoan civilization and culture. The palace appears as a maze of workrooms, living spaces, and store rooms close to a central square...
  
   (Creta)
• Mistress of the house ( Greek, "Despoina
  Despoina
  In Greek mythology, Despoina, Despoena or Despoine, was the daughter of Demeter and Poseidon and sister of Arion. She was the goddess of mysteries of Arcadian cults worshipped under the title Despoina,"the mistress" alongside with her mother Demeter,one of the goddesses of the Eleusinian mysteries...
  
  "),a title applied to the Greek goddess Persephone
  Persephone
  In Greek mythology, Persephone , also called Kore , is the daughter of Zeus and the harvest-goddess Demeter, and queen of the underworld; she was abducted by Hades, the god-king of the underworld....
  
  ,but also to the goddesses Demeter
  Demeter
  In Greek mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains, the fertility of the earth, and the seasons . Her common surnames are Sito as the giver of food or corn/grain and Thesmophoros as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society...
  
   and Hecate
  Hecate
  Hecate or Hekate is a chthonic Greco-Roman goddess associated with magic, witchcraft, necromancy, and crossroads.She is attested in poetry as early as Hesiod's Theogony...
  
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• Mistress of the animals (Greek "potnia theron
  Potnia Theron
  Potnia Theron is a term first used by Homer and often used to describe female divinities associated with animals...
  
  "), a title applied to the Greek goddess Artemis
  Artemis
  Artemis was one of the most widely venerated of the Ancient Greek deities. Her Roman equivalent is Diana. Some scholars believe that the name and indeed the goddess herself was originally pre-Greek. Homer refers to her as Artemis Agrotera, Potnia Theron: "Artemis of the wildland, Mistress of Animals"...
  
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• Mistress (Greek ("potnia
  Potnia
  Potnia , Ancient Greek for "Mistress, Lady", title of a goddess. The word was inherited by Classical Greek from Mycenean Greek with the same meaning and it was applied to several goddesses. A similar word is the title Despoina, "the mistress", which was given to the nameless chthonian goddess of...
  
  "),a title applied to the Greek goddesses Demeter
  Demeter
  In Greek mythology, Demeter is the goddess of the harvest, who presided over grains, the fertility of the earth, and the seasons . Her common surnames are Sito as the giver of food or corn/grain and Thesmophoros as a mark of the civilized existence of agricultural society...
  
  , Persephone
  Persephone
  In Greek mythology, Persephone , also called Kore , is the daughter of Zeus and the harvest-goddess Demeter, and queen of the underworld; she was abducted by Hades, the god-king of the underworld....
  
   and Athena
  Athena
  In Greek mythology, Athena, Athenê, or Athene , also referred to as Pallas Athena/Athene , is the goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, warfare, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts, justice, and skill. Minerva, Athena's Roman incarnation, embodies similar attributes. Athena is...
  
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Culture

• Mistress (band)
  Mistress (band)
  Mistress were an extreme metal band from Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. 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 sludge metal/grindcore band from Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
• Mistress (1992 film)
• Mistress (1987 film)
  Mistress (1987 film)
  Mistress is a 1987 made-for-TV movie starring Victoria Principal as Rae Colton, a beautiful woman in her middle thirties who is having an affair with a rich, married man named Wyn Brooks .-Synopsis:...
  
   starring Don Murray
• Mistresses (2008 TV series)
  • List of Mistresses episodes, an episode guide for the series
• Mistresses (2009 TV series)