Headmistress
Headmistress noun - A woman headmaster.
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Synonyms for Headmistress
Master and headmistress are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Master" instead a noun "Headmistress".
Master
Master noun - A person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field.
Headmistress and master are semantically related. You can use "Headmistress" instead a noun "Master".
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He arrives boasting to the headmistress about how he's a master of the Five Mantis Fists, then contemptuously dismisses the school's most accomplished student because she's a girl.
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Lloyd, the school's art master: a married Roman Catholic with several children, and the attempts of the school's headmistress, Miss Mackay, to remove Brodie from her post.The novel has been adapted into a play, a film, and a mini-series.
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