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headmistress

headmistress

English

Noun

headmistress ‎(plural headmistresses)

(chiefly Britain) A female school principal.

Synonyms

headteacher (UK, gender-neutral)
principal (US, gender-neutral)

Translations

female head teacher

Arabic: مُدِيرَة f ‎(mudīra)
Danish: kvindelig rektor c
Finnish: rehtori (fi) f
French: directrice (fr) f, proviseure (fr) f (lycée)
German: Schulleiterin (de) f, Rektorin (de) f, Direktorin (de) f
Hebrew: מְנַהֶלֶת m ‎(menahélet)
Irish: ardmháistreás f

Manx: ard-ven-ynsee f, ard-venainshtyr m
Portuguese: diretora f
Russian: директри́са (ru) f ‎(direktrísa)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: равнатељица f

Roman: ravnateljica (sh) f
Welsh: prifathrawes (cy) f