headmistress

English

Etymology

Compound of head +‎ mistress.

Pronunciation

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Noun

headmistress (plural headmistresses, male headmaster)

1. (chiefly British, Ireland) A female school principal.

Synonyms

• headteacher (UK, gender-neutral)
• principal (US, gender-neutral)

Derived terms

• headmistress-ship, headmistressship (rare, cf. skulllike versus skull-like)

Translations

female head teacher

• Arabic: مُدِيرَة f (mudīra)
• Danish: kvindelig rektor c
• Finnish: rehtori (fi) (male or female)
• French: directrice (fr) f, proviseure (fr) f, proviseuse (fr) f (lycée)
• German: Schulleiterin (de) f, Rektorin (de) f, Direktorin (de) f
• Hebrew: מנהלת \ מְנַהֶלֶת f (menahélet)
• Hungarian: igazgatónő (hu)
• Irish: ardmháistreás f
• Manx: ard-ven-ynsee f, ard-venainshtyr m
• Polish: dyrektorka (pl) f
• Portuguese: diretora f
• Russian: директри́са (ru) f (direktrísa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: равнатѐљица f

  Roman: ravnatèljica (sh) f

• Welsh: prifathrawes (cy) f