ma´tron|like´

ma´tron|like´
ma|tron «MAY truhn», noun.
1. wife or widow, especially a mother or married woman: »

a department store that caters to young matrons.

2. a woman who manages the household matters or supervises the inmates of a school, hospital, dormitory, or other institution. A police matron has charge of the women in a jail.
[< Old French matrone, learned borrowing from Latin mātrōna < māter, mātris mother]
ma´tron|like´, adjective.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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