Other forms: matrons
A matron is a dignified married woman, or a woman in charge of nursing. The hospital matron.
The hospital sense was abolished in Britain in the 1960s and brought back in 2001. Matronly, the adjective, is now used almost only about a figure and is rarely welcome.
1nounmatronA dignified married woman, or a woman in charge of nursing.
“The matron ran the whole hospital and everybody knew it.”
matron is a person.
Latin matrona means a married woman, from mater, a mother.
Latin
mātrōna — married woman
Old French
matrone
Middle English
matrone
English, today
matron
Built from
From Middle English matrone, from Old French matrone, from Latin mātrōna (“married woman”), from māter (“mother”). a doublet of matrona.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA