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Mistress vs Queen - What's the difference?

mistress | queen |

As nouns the difference between mistress and queen

is that mistress is a woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership while queen is a female monarch. Example: Queen Victoria

As a verb queen is

to make a queen.

As a proper noun Queen is

a title given to queens.

mistress

English

Noun

(es)
  • A woman, specifically one with great control, authority or ownership.
  • * , chapter=19
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress , and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.}}
  • A female teacher.
  • A female partner in an extramarital relationship, generally including sexual relations.
  • A dominatrix.
  • * 2006 , Amelia May Kingston, The Triumph of Hope (page 376)
    • As part of BDSM play they can enhance the domineering tread of a mistress or hobble the steps of a slave.
  • A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.
  • * Addison
    • A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic.
  • A woman regarded with love and devotion; a sweetheart.
    • (Clarendon)
  • (Scotland) A married woman; a wife.
  • * Sir (Walter Scott)
    • Several of the neighbouring mistresses had assembled to witness the event of this memorable evening.
  • (obsolete) The jack in the game of bowls.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • female companion to a master

    • Usage notes

    In the sexual sense, mistress is narrowly taken to mean a woman involved in a committed'' extramarital relationship (an affair), often supported financially (a kept woman). It is broadly taken to mean a woman involved in an extramarital relationship regardless of the level of commitment, but requires more than a single act of adultery. Tiger Woods Does Not Have 11 “Mistresses”: His many paramours aren’t committed enough to merit that term. by Jesse Sheidlower, '', Dec. 10, 2009.

    Synonyms

    * (woman with control, authority or ownership''): boss (''applicable to either sex''), head (''applicable to either sex''), leader (''applicable to either sex ) * (female teacher ): schoolmarm * (woman who displaces a wife in the affections of a man''): bit on the side (''applicable to either sex ), fancy woman, , goomah * See also

    Antonyms

    Male equivalents: * (woman with control, authority or ownership ): master * (female teacher ): master * (female partner in an extramarital affair ): cicisbeo, fancy man * (dominatrix ): master

    Derived terms

    * headmistress * mistresshood * mistresslike * mistressship * mistressy * wardrobe mistress

    References

    See also

    * miss * Mrs

    queen

    English

    (wikipedia queen)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A female monarch. Example: (Queen Victoria)
  • The wife or widow of a king.
  • (chess) The most powerful piece, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
  • (card games) A playing card with the picture of a queen on its face, the twelfth card in a given suit.
  • A powerful or forceful female person.
  • (derogatory, slang) An effeminate male homosexual. See drag queen.
  • A reproductive female animal in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp.
  • An adult female cat valued for breeding. See also tom.

    • Synonyms

    * (female monarch) queen regnant * (wife of a king) queen consort

    Derived terms

    * drag queen * drama queen * ice queen * May Queen / queen of the May * prom queen * queencraft * queenhood * Queenie * queenlike * queenly * Queen of Sheba * Queen's English * queenship * requeen

    See also

    * *

    See also

    * czarina * duchess * emperor * empress * imperial * jack * king * kingdom * majesty * prince * princess * royal * royalty

    Verb

  • To make a queen.
  • (obsolete) To act the part of a queen; to queen it.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (chess) To promote a pawn, usually to a queen.
  • (BDSM, slang, transitive, of a female) To sit on the face of (a partner) to receive oral sex.
  • * 2000 , "Lorelei", The Mistress Manual: The Good Girl's Guide to Female Dominance
    • Try Queening him. Have him lie on his back while you sit on his face (make sure he has an airway through either his mouth or his nose).
  • * 2007 , Madelynne Ellis, Dark Designs
    • ...not Eloise, sat queening him. He couldn't wait to tip her velvet. He wanted to come, but not here, with these three. It was time to extract himself.
  • * 2012 , Yolanda Celbridge, The Castle of Maldona
    • She saw his pink tongue flickering on Clare's exposed nympha as she queened him, her love juices shining on his chin and throat

    See also

    * 1000 English basic words