Miss

miss miß Miß miss- miß- Miss. English Etymology From en mistress. Pronunciation mĭs, en /mɪs/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Miss.wav Southern England en /ˈmɪz/ colloquial en ɪs Noun + Mlles A form of address, now used chiefly for an unmarried woman; used chiefly of girls before the mid-1700s, and thereafter used also of adult women without regard to marital status. Mrs. Gardiner would be happy to see Miss March and Miss Josephine at a little dance on New-Year's-Eve. With a surname. en These are the two young ladies that I wanted you to meet, Miss Jones and Miss Robinson. With a full name. en The victim was named as Miss Jane Doe. en dated or regional With a first name only. en Excuse me Ma'am, will Miss Julia and Miss Emily be staying for tea? 6 She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man. en dated Used alone. en Good morning, Miss. May I help you? A form of address for a female teacher or a waitress. en Excuse me, Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again. Used in title of the (female) winner of a beauty contest, or certain other types of contest, prefixing the country or other region that she represents, or the category of contest. en Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause to our lovely new Miss Yorkshire! en And I can now announce that this year's Miss Personality is ... Doris Miggins! en often disparaging or sarcastic Used in a mock title to point out some quality, or alleged quality, of a girl or woman. en Don't ask me, ask Miss know-it-all over there. Usage notes When referring to people with the same name, either of two forms may be used: Misses Brown or Miss Browns. Both Miss and en Mrs are frequently replaced by en Ms in current usage. In the US, the use of Miss with a first name only, as in Miss Julia, was common in the Southern US only. Elsewhere only the full or last names were possible: Miss Brown, Miss Julia Brown. In the UK, Miss with a first name only was formerly associated with the speech of servants or lower-class persons when addressing or referring to their superiors. Traditionally, if a family had multiple unmarried daughters, to avoid ambiguity, only the eldest would be referred to as Miss (surname), while a younger daughter would be Miss (given name) or Miss (given name) (surname) (see Alcott quote above). Emily Post, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home, 1922, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14314/14314-h/14314-h.htm Coordinate terms Derived terms en Miss Emma Miss Fidditch Miss Girl Miss Lucy Miss Marple Miss Piggy Miss Wrong Miss Thang Miss Thing Miss Ann Descendants bn মিস 1 yue 搣時 1 Translations title Afrikaans: af juffrou, af mej. Albanian: sq zonjushë f Arabic: ar آنِسَة f Armenian: hy օրիորդ Azerbaijani: az xanımqız Basque: eu andereño Belarusian: be па́нна f, be спада́рычна f, be па́нна f, also: madam be спада́рыня f, also: madam be па́ні f Bulgarian: bg госпо́жица f Chamicuro: ccc ic̈hulupa Chinese: Cantonese: yue 小姐 siu2 ze2 Mandarin: cmn 小姐 xiǎojiě Czech: cs slečna f Danish: da frøken c Dutch: nl mejuffrouw f, nl juffrouw f Esperanto: eo fraŭlino Estonian: et preili Faroese: fo frøkun f Finnish: fi neiti fi Nti French: fr mademoiselle f, fr madame f administrative usage Georgian: ka ქალიშვილი German: de Fräulein n, de Frau f modern usage, de Miss f in English contexts Greek: el δεσποινίδα f, el δεσποινίς f, el μις f Hindi: hi सुश्री f, hi मिस f, hi कुमारी f Hungarian: hu kisasszony Icelandic: is fröken f, is ungfrú f Ido: io damzelo Indonesian: id nona Irish: ga ógbhean, ga iníon f Italian: it signorina f Japanese: ja お嬢さん おじょうさん, o-jō-san, ja お嬢様 おじょうさま, o-jō-sama, ja さん -san -さん generic for both sexes Khmer: km កញ្ញា unmarried girl or waitress, km អ្នកនាង high class of unmarried girl, km នាង waitress or unmarried girl, km អ្នកគ្រូ female teacher Korean: ko 미스, ko 아가씨, ko 숙녀(淑女) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: ckb خوشکە Latin: la dominula f Latvian: lv kundze f, lv kundzene f Lithuanian: lt panelė f Luxembourgish: lb Joffer Macedonian: mk госпо́ѓица f, mk мис f Malay: ms cik Maltese: mt sinjorina f Manx: gv cronnaghey Norwegian: Bokmål: nb frøken m f Occitan: oc domaisèla Old Uyghur: oui 𐽲𐽰𐾀𐽳𐽺 Persian: fa دوشیزه dušize, fa دختر خانم doxtar xânom, fa مادمازل mâdmâzel Polish: pl panna f Portuguese: pt senhorita f Romanian: ro domnișoara f, ro Dra Russian: ru ба́рышня f, ru де́вушка f, ru мадемуазе́ль f madɛmuazɛ́lʹ, ru мисс f in translations, also: madam ru госпожа́ f Sanskrit: sa कुमाऋ f Scottish Gaelic: gd maighdeann Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh го̏спођица f, sh гђица f Latin: sh gȍspođica f, sh gđica f Slovak: sk slečna f Slovene: sl gospodična f Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dsb kněžna f Spanish: es señorita f, es seño f student slang Swedish: sv fröken c Tagalog: Bb. tl binibini Thai: th นางสาว Turkish: tr bayan Ukrainian: uk па́нна f, uk ба́ришня f, also: madam uk па́ні f Urdu: ur آنِسَہ f Vietnamese: vi cô, vi chị Welsh: cy bonesig References Anagrams en imss ISMs isms MSiS SIMS Sims ISMS MSIs sims SMIs en terms of address German Alternative forms de Miß superseded Etymology de :bor en:Miss de en Miss. Pronunciation de /mɪs/ de De-Miss.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Noun f,es:en[beauty queen] Miss form of address title for a beauty queen de Miss Deutschland Declension f,es:en Derived terms de Misswahl beauty contest Further reading