- (British English)
a woman who works as a nurse in a school （学校的）女舍监 - (British English)
a senior female nurse in charge of the other nurses in a hospital 女护士长（现常称为 senior nursing officer） - (becoming old-fashioned)
an older married woman 上年纪的已婚妇女
Word Originlate Middle English (in sense (3)): from Old French matrone, from Latin matrona, from mater, matr- ‘mother’.