matron

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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. isim 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. isim 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. isim 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. isim A housekeeper, especially, a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public institution.
6. isim A female prison officer.