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spellmistress

spellmistress noun: a female expert or consummate spellcaster.

Noun

spellmistress (plural spellmistresses)

  1. A female expert or consummate spellcaster.
    • Kill an Aravu spellmistress.2005, Eric Mylonas, EverQuest II: Desert of Flames, Prima Official Game Guide, Prima Games, →ISBN, page 106, column 2
    • A dryad could carry only one spell and it was entirely at the whim of the spellmistress as to which of the ten or so spells at her command she used.2007, Leslie Brown, “Dryad in the Mast”, in W. H. Horner, editor, Sails & Sorcery: Tales of Nautical Fantasy, Wilmington, Del.: Fantasist Enterprises, →ISBN, page 210
  2. A woman in charge of running a spelling bee.
    • The 14th annual Ottawa county rural school Spelling Bee will be held in Miami April 7 under the sponsorship of County Supt. Fred Jimerson and the News-Record. […] Again this year, Miss Vesta Fisk of the Miami high school faculty will serve as spellmistress, Jimerson said.1951 March 21, “Notes from Your Town”, in Miami Daily News-Record, 48th year, number 226, Miami, Okla., page one, column 1
    • “Rampant,” boomed the spellmistress, dressed officiously in green. Elysia Dunford, 9, approached the microphone: R-A-M-..........P.....-I-N-T. “incorrect,” droned the grey-haired judge.2000 April 2, Patricia Bailey, “‘Rampant’ stumps contestants: Annual spelling bee a grinding affair”, in Ottawa Citizen, page A11, column 1

Examples of spellmistress in a sentence

  • Some spellmistress as wants babbies of a Bear, is the conjecture.2008, Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels, London: Jonathan Cape, published 2009, →ISBN, page 268:
  • “Your spells aren’t as smooth or regular as the factory tablets,” the spellmistress continued.2015, R. J. Anderson, A Pocket Full of Murder, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 92:
  • Seventeen students lined up before spellmistress Marline Stephenson Dalley at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in St Mary to get things going with the first word: A-B-I-L-I-T-Y.2022 September 29, Kerry-Ann Hepburn, “Kyria wins St Mary title as Bee buzz returns”, in The Gleaner:

Forms of spellmistress

pluralspellmistresses

Origin of spellmistress

From spell + mistress.

Questions about spellmistress

What does spellmistress mean?
Spellmistress means a female expert or consummate spellcaster.
How do you use spellmistress in a sentence?
Some spellmistress as wants babbies of a Bear, is the conjecture.
What part of speech is spellmistress?
Spellmistress is a noun.
What is the plural of spellmistress?
The plural of spellmistress is spellmistresses.

Words near spellmistress in the dictionary

  1. Spellmans
  2. spellmaster
  3. spellmasters
  4. Spellmeyer
  5. Spellmeyers
  6. spellmistress
  7. spellmonger
  8. spellmongers
  9. spello
  10. spelloff
  11. spelloffs

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