1.WOMANMARRY literary an older married woman 主妇,上年纪的已婚女人
2.British EnglishBrE old-fashionedMH a nurse who is in charge of the other nurses in a hospital 护士长
3.British EnglishBrESES a woman who works as a nurse in a private school 〔私立学校的〕女护士
4.American EnglishAmESCSE a woman who is in charge of women and children in a school or prison 〔学校的〕女总管;〔监狱的〕女看守
Examples from the Corpus
matron• The woman grabbed one arm, a matron the other.• Mr. and Mrs. Dawes were the actingmaster and matron, and they were not universally popular.• At Café Europa, societymatronssipcoffee after shopping.• Her husband had died in California in 1849, while Farnham worked on prison reform as the matron of Sing-Sing.• He searched the clothes and sacks of the boys, the matrons those of the girls.• The Tanganyika Two nurses were to meet the matron to whom they had been assigned.
Originmatron
(1300-1400)Frenchmatrone, from Latinmatrona, from mater“mother”