[
US
/ˈmeɪtɹən/
]
[ UK /mˈeɪtɹən/ ]
[ UK /mˈeɪtɹən/ ]
NOUN
- a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified
- a woman in charge of nursing in a medical institution
- a wardress in a prison
How To Use matron In A Sentence
- But the matron still expected me to work and I was forced to hop around the wards tending to my patients.
- It would be wonderful to crawl into bed, to ask Matron for an aspirin.
- Many bloggers and online commenters have called the animatronic baby "creepy" and "freaky" -- Technabob even ran a post about the clip with the headline The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- The nectarean beverage seemed to operate cheerily on the matron's system; and placing her hand on the boy's curly head, she said (like Andromache, Paul Clifford — Volume 01
- A long screech was followed by a thud as a matronly passenger tumbled forward, breaking her arm.
- `A Pomeranian ," replied this morning's guest, a big, blowsy matron straight out of Laurel and Hardy. SURE OF YOU
- But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair. South Wind
- The computer generated effects, live action and animatronics courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop are largely convincing, although some of the blue screen work is rough around the edges.
- Matron allowed me to come too, for a while, to watch, pirouette around and drink a thimbleful of ginger wine.
- In 1843 the gaol had a governor, two turnkeys and two guards but no matron for female prisoners until 1850 when the second stage of the gaol was completed.