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slavemistress

slavemistress noun: a woman who owns a slave.

Noun

slavemistress (plural slavemistresses)

  1. A woman who owns a slave.
    • Sara and Ruth were to be put to kitchen duties. They were greeted by a slavemistress from the Rhineland who barked at them. Sara barked back and was cuffed.1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked, published 2009, →ISBN, page 157
    • This lack of concern for the development of these young human beings was enforced by racist slavemasters and slavemistresses.1991, Frances Cress Welsing, “Black Child-Parents: The New Factor in Black Genocide”, in The Isis (Yssis) Papers, Chicago, Ill.: Third World Press, →ISBN, page 259

Forms of slavemistress

pluralslavemistresses

Origin of slavemistress

From slave + mistress.

Questions about slavemistress

What does slavemistress mean?
Slavemistress means a woman who owns a slave.
What part of speech is slavemistress?
Slavemistress is a noun.
What is the plural of slavemistress?
The plural of slavemistress is slavemistresses.

Words near slavemistress in the dictionary

  1. slavemakers
  2. slavemaking
  3. slaveman
  4. slavemaster
  5. slavemasters
  6. slavemistress
  7. slavemistresses
  8. slavemonger
  9. slavemongers
  10. slavenapping
  11. slavened

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