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headmistressship

headmistressship is the alternative form of headmistress-ship.

Meaning of headmistress-ship

Noun

headmistress-ship (countable and uncountable, plural headmistress-ships)

  1. The position of a headmistress.
    • Under the headmistressship of the late Miss Ruth Lim the school progressed steadily and by 1941 the enrolment was at 200 pupils.1965, Seng Ong Ho, Methodist Schools in Malaysia: Their Record and History, Board of Education, page 309
  2. The tenure of a headmistress.

Forms of headmistressship

pluralheadmistressships

Questions about headmistressship

What is headmistressship the alternative form of?
Headmistressship is the alternative form of headmistress-ship.

Words near headmistressship in the dictionary

  1. headmistress
  2. headmistress-ship
  3. headmistress-ships
  4. headmistresses
  5. headmistressly
  6. headmistressship
  7. headmistressships
  8. headmistressy
  9. headmold
  10. headmold-shot
  11. headmolds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headmistressship (page history and authors); headmistress-ship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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