Thesaurus results for MISTRESSES

mistresses

noun

plural of mistress

as in concubines

a female other than his wife with whom a married man has a continuing sexual relationship he lavished gifts upon his mistress but completely ignored his wife

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Recent Examples of mistresses Most of Jack’s mistresses did not express much concern about Jackie. — Laurence Leamer, Vanity Fair, 14 Oct. 2026 Wives and mistresses battle each other in the French court of King Henry II and in the palace of Maharaja Madho Singh II. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026 The Getty Suite speaks for itself with its throne-like chairs, opulent tapestries, carved rose wooden ceiling and connecting door into the Medici Suite (CH) where Getty put up some of his mistresses. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 July 2026 On the other hand, Dunaway and her tart-talking sidekick, Brenda Vaccaro, seem to be having the time of their lives as mistresses of the shades of darkness (their ramshackle abode is a funhouse Ghost Train ride festooned with skeletons, spiders and tattered netting). — Arthur Knight, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026 The multiple mistresses ruined his image; the countless injuries derailed his golf game. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026 Providing relief and contrast are the sisters, daughters, mothers, wives, mistresses, and nursemaids, all of whom also have views on ideal social order. — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 1 Dec. 2025 His character, federal agent Nelson Van Alden, fathered two different children with two different mistresses. — Ralphie Aversa, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025 Back were the villas and the apartments, the chauffeurs and the mistresses swaddled in foreign luxury. — Julia Ioffe, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025

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concubines

Noun

But experts say the male-only succession system is structurally flawed and only worked previously thanks to the help of concubines who, until about 100 years ago, produced imperial children.

— Mari Yamaguchi, Twin Cities, 6 Sep. 2025
Some of them were married (or given as concubines) to Inca nobles, others became priestesses, and some ended up as human sacrifices.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025