Thesaurus results for MISTRESS

mistress

noun

ˈmi-strəs

Definition of mistress

as in concubine

a female other than his wife with whom a married man has a continuing sexual relationship he lavished gifts upon his mistress but completely ignored his wife

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Recent Examples of mistress Joan Didion, the mistress of concision and a Hemingway admirer, began her career writing captions and sidebars to fit around pictures in women’s magazines. — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026 Related Stories The centerpiece confrontation behind The Betrayers comes between Baruch Kotler, the politician played by Michael Aronov, who betrays his wife and daughter when his affair with his mistress, Leora, played by Kaelen Ohm, is exposed. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 18 Sep. 2026 Fortune was a fickle mistress for the Buffs, who would have something good followed almost immediately by the unfortunate. — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Sep. 2026 It has been said that the Moon is a harsh mistress, and nowhere is this more apparent than at the lunar south pole. — Space.com Staff, Space.com, 22 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for mistress

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The person who started that rumor is the present-day, extremely status-conscious Queen Dowager (Our Unwritten Seoul’s Jang Young-nam), who is furious at the idea her husband would make a lowly maid a concubine.

— Kayti Burt, Time, 17 July 2026
In Judges 19 a Levite and his concubine stop in their travels in Gibeah in the land of the tribe of Benjamin.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026

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Art lovers should aim to be there in April when Joali hosts its annual Imagi-Nature Art Festival.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
The undead hero initially turns agains the X-Men and serves Apocalypse, but Gambit’s lover Rogue is able to save him by harnessing the enormous power of a Celestial and offering to sacrifice herself.

— Jordan Moreau, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026

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