matron

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.
    — grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother
  2. A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.; A woman with the character of a mother or matriarch.
    — But there’s no bottome, none / In my Voluptuouſneſſe : Your Wiues, your Daughters, / Your Matrons, and your Maides, could not fill vp / The Ceſterne of my Luſt, and my Deſire / All continent Impediments would ore-beare / That did oppoſe my will.
  3. A mature or elderly woman, especially one of a higher social rank.; A woman in charge of the domestic arrangements of an establishment or institution, especially, the nursing officer or chief nurse of a hospital.
    — the matron of a school or hospital
  4. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children.
    — Roman matrons, sexually exhausted, were fond of trout caught in a little stream in the Vosges Mountains.
  5. A housekeeper, especially, a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public institution.
  6. A female prison officer. US

词形变化

matrons plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bridesmatron jury of matrons matronage matronal matronhood matronism matronize matronlike matronliness matronly matron of honor matron of honour matronship ooh, matron undermatron
相关词
matrix matrona matroneum

词源

From Middle English matrone, from Old French matrone, from Latin mātrōna (“married woman”), from māter (“mother”). Doublet of matrona.
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