Word Meanings - MATRON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a

Additional info about word: MATRON

1. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother. Fuller. 2. A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital. Jury of matrons , a jury of experienced women called to determine the question of pregnancy when set up in bar of execution, and for other cognate purposes.

Related words: (words related to MATRON)

• MATRONAL
  Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• CRADLE
  1. To lay to rest, or rock, as in a cradle; to lull or quiet, as by rocking. It cradles their fears to sleep. D. A. Clark. 2. To nurse or train in infancy. He that hath been cradled in majesty will not leave the throne to play with beggars.
• MATRON
  1. A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a
• BORNE
  Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• STAIDNESS
  The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness
• STAID
  imp. & p. p. of Stay.
• STAIDLY
  In a staid manner, sedately.
• GRAVEN
  Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
• MATRONIZE
  1. To make a matron of; to make matronlike. Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits. Richardson. 2. To act the part of a marton toward; to superintend; to chaperone; as, to matronize an assembly.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• MATRONLY
  1. Advanced in years; elderly. 2. Like, or befitting, a matron; grave; sedate.
• MATRONYMIC
  See METRONYMIC
• GRAVEYARD
  A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
• GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
  1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
• GRAVES' DISEASE
  See DISEASE
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
  In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• NEEDLEWOMAN
  A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.