A woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict).

synonyms: mistress, schoolma'am, schoolmarm.

Roget 540: teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master, tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don; governor, bear leader; governess, duenna [Sp.]; disciplinarian.    professor, lecturer, reader, prelector^†, prolocutor, preacher; chalk talker, khoja^†; pastor etc. (clergy) 996; schoolmaster, dominie [Fr.], usher, pedagogue, abecedarian; schoolmistress, dame, monitor, pupil teacher.    expositor etc. 524; preceptor, guide; guru; mentor etc. (adviser) 695; pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi^†, example etc. (model for imitation) 22.    professorship etc. (school) 542.    tutelage etc. (teaching) 537.    ... show more

Dutch: onderwijzeres
Polish: żyleta, kosa