Definition of Games-mistress

1. Noun. The teacher in charge of games at a school.

Exact synonyms: Games-master
Generic synonyms: School Teacher, Schoolteacher

Lexicographical Neighbors of Games-mistress

gameness
gamenesses
gameographies
gameography
gamepad
gamepads
gameplan
gameplans
gameplay
gameplayer
gameplayers
gamer
gamers
games
games-master
games-mistress (current term)
games console
games consoles
games of chance
games of gotcha
games of skill
games room
games rooms
games the system
games with a purpose
gameshow
gameshows
gamesier
gamesiest
gamesman

Literary usage of Games-mistress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Public Schools for Girls: A Series of Papers on Their History, Aims, and by M. A. Douglas, Sara Annie Burstall (1911)
"Sometimes there is a special games' mistress, who does nothing else but that and gymnastics. Elsewhere an academic mistress organizes the games; ..."

2. The School World (1907)
"Many schools have a regular games mistress, trained at such a place as the Dartford Training College or the Anstey College, Birmingham, who also teaches ..."

3. Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in English Secondary Education by Great Britain Board of Education, Michael Sadler, C. C. Cotterill (1900)
"Thi- games mistress was trained by a cricket professional, in summer one hour a day, on an average, is devoted to compulsory cricket, and in winter one hour ..."

4. Special Reports on Educational Subjects by Great Britain Board of Education (1898)
"Some schools engage a special games' mistress, and it is certainly a good ... I, however, rather deprecate calling her a games' mistress, and giving her no ..."

5. Papers on Moral Education: Communicated to the First International Moral by Gustav Spiller (1909)
"With the acquisition of a playground and the appointment of a games mistress, these difficulties were so minimised as to impress her with the value of ..."

6. Women Workers in Seven Professions: A Survey of Their Economic Conditions by Edith Julia Morley (1914)
"VI THE TEACHING OF GYMNASTICS No school of any importance is considered properly equipped unless the staff includes a gymnastic and games mistress. ..."

7. Pindar in English Verse by Pindar, Henry Francis Cary (1833)
"O MOTHER of the golden-crowned games, Mistress of truth, Olympia, at whose shrines, When the burnt victim flames; For omens searching, many a seer divines ..."

8. The War for the World by Israel Zangwill (1916)
"There is even—0 tempora, O mores—a games-mistress in a boys' school! The very Government offices—immemorial abodes of the barnacle—have women clerks and ..."

9. Public Schools for Girls: A Series of Papers on Their History, Aims, and by M. A. Douglas, Sara Annie Burstall (1911)
"Sometimes there is a special games' mistress, who does nothing else but that and gymnastics. Elsewhere an academic mistress organizes the games; ..."

10. The School World (1907)
"Many schools have a regular games mistress, trained at such a place as the Dartford Training College or the Anstey College, Birmingham, who also teaches ..."

11. Preparatory Schools for Boys: Their Place in English Secondary Education by Great Britain Board of Education, Michael Sadler, C. C. Cotterill (1900)
"Thi- games mistress was trained by a cricket professional, in summer one hour a day, on an average, is devoted to compulsory cricket, and in winter one hour ..."

12. Special Reports on Educational Subjects by Great Britain Board of Education (1898)
"Some schools engage a special games' mistress, and it is certainly a good ... I, however, rather deprecate calling her a games' mistress, and giving her no ..."

13. Papers on Moral Education: Communicated to the First International Moral by Gustav Spiller (1909)
"With the acquisition of a playground and the appointment of a games mistress, these difficulties were so minimised as to impress her with the value of ..."

14. Women Workers in Seven Professions: A Survey of Their Economic Conditions by Edith Julia Morley (1914)
"VI THE TEACHING OF GYMNASTICS No school of any importance is considered properly equipped unless the staff includes a gymnastic and games mistress. ..."

15. Pindar in English Verse by Pindar, Henry Francis Cary (1833)
"O MOTHER of the golden-crowned games, Mistress of truth, Olympia, at whose shrines, When the burnt victim flames; For omens searching, many a seer divines ..."

16. The War for the World by Israel Zangwill (1916)
"There is even—0 tempora, O mores—a games-mistress in a boys' school! The very Government offices—immemorial abodes of the barnacle—have women clerks and ..."

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