monitress

English

Etymology

From monitor +‎ -ess.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɒnɪtɹɪs/

Noun

monitress (plural monitresses)

  1. (now rare) A female mentor or advisor; a female observer.
    • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
      Maisie could feel his monitress stiffen almost with anguish against the increase of his spell and then hurl herself as a desperate defence from it into the quite confessed poorness of violence, of iteration.
  2. (dated) A female monitor, or school leader.
    • Angela Brazil
      Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.

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