INSTRUCTRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does instructress mean? 

• INSTRUCTRESS (noun)
  The noun INSTRUCTRESS has 1 sense:

1. a woman instructor

  Familiarity information: INSTRUCTRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSTRUCTRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A woman instructor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("instructress" is a kind of...):

instructor; teacher (a person whose occupation is teaching)

 Context examples 

I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We will endeavour to do our duty by her, and she will, at least, have the advantage of companions of her own age, and of a regular instructress.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or, perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had roused her powers within her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Her elder cousins mortified her by reflections on her size, and abashed her by noticing her shyness: Miss Lee wondered at her ignorance, and the maid-servants sneered at her clothes; and when to these sorrows was added the idea of the brothers and sisters among whom she had always been important as playfellow, instructress, and nurse, the despondence that sunk her little heart was severe.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)