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matron
noun
- 1. The former title of the head of the nursing staff in a hospital. Now usually called senior nursing officer.
2. A woman in charge of nursing and domestic arrangements in an institution such as a boarding school or old people's home.
3. Any dignified, worthy or respectable middle-aged or elderly woman, especially a married one.
- Thesaurus: matriarch, dame, dowager, lady.
4. A prison wardress.
- Said of a woman: dignified; authoritative.
- euphemistic
Said of a woman: plump or portly in build, because of middle-age.
