monitress

noun
/ˈmɒnɪtɹɪs/UK

Etymology

From monitor + -ess.

Definitions

  1. A female mentor or advisor

    A female mentor or advisor; a female observer.

    • Diana filled up all his heart: he felt as if by his union with her he had received a new and better soul. She was his monitress as he learned what were the true ends of life.
    • Maisie could feel his monitress stiffen almost with anguish against the increase of his spell and then hurl herself as a desperate defence from it into the quite confessed poorness of violence, of iteration.
  2. A female monitor, or school leader.

    • Miss Mitchell would certainly be most relieved to have a monitress who was capable of organising the juniors at games.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA