headmistress
noun
head·mis·tress
ˈhed-ˌmi-strəs 
-ˈmi-
: a woman heading the staff of a private school
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Reports show Winfrey flew back to South Africa, took action to address the issue and fired the school’s headmistress and all dorm matrons.
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Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
The musical film spends more time at Matilda’s school, where Emma Thompson plays the hulking, tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull, and less time with Matilda’s boorish family, although Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough make the most of their scenes as Matilda’s parents.
—Josh Bell, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
The rest of the statement read like a slightly strained note from a scrupulously polite headmistress.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
Michelle Yeoh is Madam Morrible Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) is attached to play Madam Morrible, the headmistress of Shiz University and a manipulative advisor to the Wizard.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2024
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Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
The musical film spends more time at Matilda’s school, where Emma Thompson plays the hulking, tyrannical headmistress Miss Trunchbull, and less time with Matilda’s boorish family, although Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough make the most of their scenes as Matilda’s parents.
—Josh Bell, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2024
The rest of the statement read like a slightly strained note from a scrupulously polite headmistress.
—Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
Michelle Yeoh is Madam Morrible Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) is attached to play Madam Morrible, the headmistress of Shiz University and a manipulative advisor to the Wizard.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 Jan. 2024
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headmistress
noun
head·mis·tress
-ˌmis-trəs
-ˈmis-
: a female head of a private school
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