headmistress

English

Etymology

head +‎ mistress

Pronunciation

Audio (Southern England) (file)

Noun

headmistress (plural headmistresses, masculine headmaster)

(chiefly British, Ireland) A female school principal.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

headmistress-ship

Translations

female head teacher

Arabic: مُدِيرَة f (mudīra)
Danish: kvindelig rektor c
Finnish: rehtori (fi) f
French: directrice (fr) f, proviseure (fr) f, proviseuse (fr) f (lycée)
German: Schulleiterin (de) f, Rektorin (de) f, Direktorin (de) f
Hebrew: מְנַהֶלֶת m (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

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