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Definition of headmistress in English: headmistressnoun hɛdˈmɪstrəsˌhɛdˈmɪstrəs British A woman who is the head teacher in a school. Example sentencesExamples - Sent to Allenswood school in England at fifteen, Eleanor was inspired by headmistress Marie Souvestre.
- When we got there, there was a long hallway with portraits of the past headmasters and headmistresses hanging on the walls and an oak doorway at the end of the hall.
- Anna was Windstone's headmistress, he didn't need any specific grades to get in as long as she thought he was ready.
- Suddenly there was a knock on the door and the small, stern headmistress stepped in.
- People used to think I was joking when I told them the headmistress of my Glasgow convent school warned us that if we wore patent shoes to the school dance, they might reflect our underwear.
- And there is actually in the book, there's a true story from first headmistress of a school we went to when we were very young.
- There are five teachers plus a headmistress, and a classroom and school facilities, including computers and the Internet.
- Anna was the headmistress of a boarding school, her senses and ability to catch children in the wrong were quite well exercised.
- The school's headmistress, Karima Hassan Ahmad, says with fresh paint, new supplies and a place to display their artwork, they're expressing themselves like never before.
- I didn't want to hear that this was the headmistress of Beth's school; the one that kept her from us at Thanksgiving.
- Inside, headmistress Ibistam Mahdi cuts a yellow ribbon, and thanks the men through a translator.
- One of Rogers's earliest moves as headmistress was to revise the school's awards policy.
- The creamy walls of both floors were lined with paintings of old headmasters and headmistresses, bowls of fruit, Paris operas, and fairy tale adventures.
- We also reveal today a shocking incident which took place last week, when an eight-year-old boy at a Glasgow primary school assaulted his headmistress so severely she required hospitalisation.
- Elizabeth Lister has been the headmistress at Westgate Primary School, on Scarborough Road, for the past nine years or so.
- It happened that Hone was educated in a school, strange to say, whose headmistress was a Wesleyan.
- The new headmistress of Horton-in-Ribblesdale primary school says she is more than ready for the challenges that lie ahead.
- To truly understand what is taking place, we must go back ten years, when the school's headmistress was only thirteen years of age.
- They even got me to stop complaining about the silliness of a peasant girl learning to read by enlisting the aid of Mistress Sherath, the mage who served as the school's headmistress.
- I had to beg Michael to delay his trip and it took a good while to convince the headmistress at Jenny's school to allow her yet another week away from school, but in the end I had both my brother and my best friend with me on my wedding day.
- He was taken to the ‘sick room’, where he was told to lay down for a while, and the headmistress phoned his dad, (I was away for the weekend with my hubby).
- I would have said it to any other teacher in the school, but the headmistress was going a bit far.
- It's like the headmistress of your secondary school has legged it and the PE teachers have spotted their chance to seize power.
- The headmistress of our primary school said the schools will not be aware of how they are ranked.
- All of their successors have been women, including one lesbian headmistress who is now retired and living with the school's head French teacher.
- We both got dragged of to the headmistress, but I swear from that day on she never bothered me again and nor did anyone else.
- Winning competitions is definitely a bonus, and Philip is even given time off by his headmistress at Oldfield Primary School to take part.
- She had picked up his weaved basket and now began picking out the carrots that were big enough to do for he old headmistress's liking.
- His father is a captain in the British Guards and his mother is the headmistress of a prep school in England.
- At Walthamstow High School for Girls the headmistress called in the police to barricade the young women in the school with police vans.
- The first headmistress of Altrincham Grammar School for Girls was once a tutor to royal children and the school is to be given priceless sketches of the Queen Mother and the Prince of Wales by Salford artist Harold Riley to mark the occasion.
- Huxley also typed in the advances Bernard makes to Eton's headmistress during the showing of the Penitentes film.
- She sounded like a school teacher - a headmistress - telling a child to stay behind, prepare for a detention.
- Ivy Starkie, the headmistress of Threshfield Primary School for the past 25 years, retired.
- I know Mrs Havelock, the headmistress at my junior school didn't really approve of the word nice, but in this case it truly was.
- Twenty-two sheep found themselves with a week's detention at Ingleton Middle School after the headmistress, Mary Parker, impounded the woolly creatures.
- The headmistress of Rainhall Road Primary School, Barnoldswick, issued a blunt warning regarding statements about the closure of the school.
- Louisa Barrett is the beautiful blonde headmistress of the watery city's only girls' prep school, and an ideal amateur detective.
- What drives the narrative besides the twins' twin voices are the fractured testimonies of those who have known them all their lives, including their Nan and headmistress and a doctor who treats them and one of their brothers.
- Jack faltered in her charge towards her headmistress: you didn't want to mess with her when she was busy.
Synonyms leader, chief, boss, controller, master, supervisor, governor, superintendent, foreman, forewoman, headman
Derivatives adjective British In a headmistressy way she corrects the inaccuracies of what they remember and seems emotionally levitated above them both. Example sentencesExamples - Elinor has her priggish and headmistressy moments in the novel but at that point I am on her side.
- To our children and grandchildren, ultra-conservative ‘old lady’ style may have the attraction of novelty, and none of the claustrophobic headmistressy associations we've pinned to it since we were young.
- It is not only the medicinal aspect of food that is dished out with headmistressy insistence at the Imperial Herbal.
- Swisser put on her headmistressy spectacles and the two of them completed their bit of the forms.
Definition of headmistress in US English: headmistressnounˌhedˈmistrəsˌhɛdˈmɪstrəs British (especially in private schools) the woman in charge of a school; the principal. Example sentencesExamples - I know Mrs Havelock, the headmistress at my junior school didn't really approve of the word nice, but in this case it truly was.
- Louisa Barrett is the beautiful blonde headmistress of the watery city's only girls' prep school, and an ideal amateur detective.
- It's like the headmistress of your secondary school has legged it and the PE teachers have spotted their chance to seize power.
- The headmistress of our primary school said the schools will not be aware of how they are ranked.
- The new headmistress of Horton-in-Ribblesdale primary school says she is more than ready for the challenges that lie ahead.
- One of Rogers's earliest moves as headmistress was to revise the school's awards policy.
- There are five teachers plus a headmistress, and a classroom and school facilities, including computers and the Internet.
- What drives the narrative besides the twins' twin voices are the fractured testimonies of those who have known them all their lives, including their Nan and headmistress and a doctor who treats them and one of their brothers.
- Elizabeth Lister has been the headmistress at Westgate Primary School, on Scarborough Road, for the past nine years or so.
- Inside, headmistress Ibistam Mahdi cuts a yellow ribbon, and thanks the men through a translator.
- His father is a captain in the British Guards and his mother is the headmistress of a prep school in England.
- And there is actually in the book, there's a true story from first headmistress of a school we went to when we were very young.
- Jack faltered in her charge towards her headmistress: you didn't want to mess with her when she was busy.
- I would have said it to any other teacher in the school, but the headmistress was going a bit far.
- The headmistress of Rainhall Road Primary School, Barnoldswick, issued a blunt warning regarding statements about the closure of the school.
- Suddenly there was a knock on the door and the small, stern headmistress stepped in.
- She had picked up his weaved basket and now began picking out the carrots that were big enough to do for he old headmistress's liking.
- Twenty-two sheep found themselves with a week's detention at Ingleton Middle School after the headmistress, Mary Parker, impounded the woolly creatures.
- He was taken to the ‘sick room’, where he was told to lay down for a while, and the headmistress phoned his dad, (I was away for the weekend with my hubby).
- Winning competitions is definitely a bonus, and Philip is even given time off by his headmistress at Oldfield Primary School to take part.
- We both got dragged of to the headmistress, but I swear from that day on she never bothered me again and nor did anyone else.
- Anna was Windstone's headmistress, he didn't need any specific grades to get in as long as she thought he was ready.
- I didn't want to hear that this was the headmistress of Beth's school; the one that kept her from us at Thanksgiving.
- The first headmistress of Altrincham Grammar School for Girls was once a tutor to royal children and the school is to be given priceless sketches of the Queen Mother and the Prince of Wales by Salford artist Harold Riley to mark the occasion.
- When we got there, there was a long hallway with portraits of the past headmasters and headmistresses hanging on the walls and an oak doorway at the end of the hall.
- Huxley also typed in the advances Bernard makes to Eton's headmistress during the showing of the Penitentes film.
- The creamy walls of both floors were lined with paintings of old headmasters and headmistresses, bowls of fruit, Paris operas, and fairy tale adventures.
- Sent to Allenswood school in England at fifteen, Eleanor was inspired by headmistress Marie Souvestre.
- I had to beg Michael to delay his trip and it took a good while to convince the headmistress at Jenny's school to allow her yet another week away from school, but in the end I had both my brother and my best friend with me on my wedding day.
- She sounded like a school teacher - a headmistress - telling a child to stay behind, prepare for a detention.
- We also reveal today a shocking incident which took place last week, when an eight-year-old boy at a Glasgow primary school assaulted his headmistress so severely she required hospitalisation.
- At Walthamstow High School for Girls the headmistress called in the police to barricade the young women in the school with police vans.
- It happened that Hone was educated in a school, strange to say, whose headmistress was a Wesleyan.
- The school's headmistress, Karima Hassan Ahmad, says with fresh paint, new supplies and a place to display their artwork, they're expressing themselves like never before.
- To truly understand what is taking place, we must go back ten years, when the school's headmistress was only thirteen years of age.
- Anna was the headmistress of a boarding school, her senses and ability to catch children in the wrong were quite well exercised.
- Ivy Starkie, the headmistress of Threshfield Primary School for the past 25 years, retired.
- All of their successors have been women, including one lesbian headmistress who is now retired and living with the school's head French teacher.
- They even got me to stop complaining about the silliness of a peasant girl learning to read by enlisting the aid of Mistress Sherath, the mage who served as the school's headmistress.
- People used to think I was joking when I told them the headmistress of my Glasgow convent school warned us that if we wore patent shoes to the school dance, they might reflect our underwear.
Synonyms leader, chief, boss, controller, master, supervisor, governor, superintendent, foreman, forewoman, headman
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