Clues for the word "MATRON"
We've had 45 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 45 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on October 24, 2025.
Definition of matron
- n. - A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
- n. - A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.
Referring Clues
- Female attendant
- Member of a ladies' club
- Headmistress
- Women's prison figure
- Female prison official
- Women's prison official
- ___ of honor (wedding party member, perhaps)
- Prison wardress
- ___ of honor
- Married woman
- Woman warden
- ___ of honor
- Mature woman
- Woman in charge of a prison
- Female supervisor
- Prison worker
- Prison official
- Housemother, e.g.
- Dowager
- Women's prison head
- Married lady
- Head female
- Older married woman
- Health worker
- Female prison guard
- Senior nurse
- Silly rot - a man about to become a mother
- Dull Second and Third from Prokofiev, ending in Vaughan Williams' mortified cry?
- Middle-aged woman the tram ran over
- Maybe Tom ran from her!
- Not a Mr mistaken as Mrs
- Nursing officer
- Former title of today's Senior Nursing Officer
- Boarding school figure
- Dignified woman
- Fellow drank up endless port and married woman
- Dignified lady
- ___ of honor (wedding official)
- Women's prison officer
- ___ of honor (bridal attendant)
- Prison personage
- Respected woman
- ___ of honor: wedding party VIP
- Prison chief
- Dorm supervisor at a girls' school
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 24, 2025
- New York Times - September 23, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - May 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 25, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - September 19, 2022
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 06, 2017
- Penny Dell Daily - September 15, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 30, 2017
- Mirror Classic - August 22, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 16, 2017
- Wall Street Journal - June 10, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - May 06, 2016
- Universal - March 24, 2016
- Family Time - March 15, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 23, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - July 23, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - April 26, 2013
- USA Today - March 25, 2013
- Guardian Quick - February 28, 2013
- Guardian Cryptic - August 13, 2012
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - July 27, 2012
- Netword - March 16, 2012
- New York Times - February 05, 2012
- USA Today - June 16, 2011
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 23, 2011
- USA Today - July 21, 2010
- Jonesin - May 11, 2010
- Canadiana - February 01, 2010
- Guardian Quick - January 11, 2010
- Guardian Quick - September 27, 2008
- And in 15 more crossword puzzles...