Mrs

See also: mrs, MRS, and Mrs.

English

Alternative forms

• Mris. (obsolete)
• Mrs. (US, Canada)
• M^rs

Etymology

From mistress.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsɪz/, /ˈmɪsəz/

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  Rhymes: -ɪsɪz

• (US dialects, especially Southern American English, Michigan) enPR: mĭs IPA^(key): /ˈmɪs/, /ˈmɪz/

  Homophones: Ms, miss (see further homophones in Ms)

Noun

Mrs (plural Mmes or Mesdames or (rare) Mrses)

1. Abbreviation of Missus or Mistress (used before an adult woman's name or surname, used for any high-status woman without regard to marital status until the 1800s, after which it began to be reserved for married, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames)
   • 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals:

     Mrs Malaprop said, “He’s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:

     In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

Coordinate terms

• (titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), Madam (madam, ma'am); (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor) ^{(Category: en:Titles)}

Derived terms

• missus
• misses

Related terms

• Ms / Ms. (title for an adult female)
• Miss

Descendants

• → Yiddish: מיסעס (mises)

Translations

title before a woman's name

• Afrikaans: mev.
• Arabic: سَيِّدَة f (sayyida), مَدَام f (madām)
• Armenian: տ-ն (t-n), տկն. (tkn.), տիկին (hy) (tikin)
• Belarusian: па́ні f (páni), спада́рыня f (spadárynja), мі́сіс f (mísis) (Anglophone context)
• Bulgarian: госпожа́ (bg) f (gospožá)
• Catalan: Na (ca) f, N' f (prevocalic), Sra. (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: -夫人 (zh) (-fūrén), -太太 (zh) (-tàitài)

• Czech: p. (cs), pí (cs), paní (cs) f
• Danish: fr. (da)
• Dutch: mevr. (nl), mw., mevrouw (nl) f
• Esperanto: S-ino (eo)
• Estonian: Pr
• Finnish: Rva, rva (fi)
• French: Mme. (fr) f, Mme (fr) f
• Georgian: ქალბატონი (kalbaṭoni)
• German: Fr. (de)
• Greek: κα (el) f (ka)
• Hebrew: גב׳ f (g'véret), גְּבֶרֶת (he) m (gvéret)
• Hindi: जी (hi) f (jī), श्रीमती (hi) f (śrīmtī), साहिबा f (sāhibā)
• Hungarian: -né (hu)
• Icelandic: fr.
• Indonesian: Ibu (id), Nyonya
• Interlingua: sra, seniora
• Irish: Bh
• Italian: Sig.ra
• Japanese: -夫人 (ja) (-ふじん, -fujin), -さん (ja) (-san), -様 (ja) (-さま, -sama)
• Kabuverdianu: nha
• Khmer: អ្នកស្រី (neak srey)
• Korean: 씨 (ko) (-ssi), 님 (ko) (-nim), 미시스 (misiseu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xanim (ku)

• Lithuanian: Ponia, ponia f
• Macedonian: Г-ѓа f (G-ǵa), госпоѓа f (gospoǵa)
• Malagasy: Ramatoa f
• Malay: puan
• Maltese: Sinjura
• Maori: Mihi
• Mongolian: -гуай (mn) (-guaj), хатагтай (mn) (xatagtaj)
• Norwegian: fru (archaic), Fr (archaic)
• Persian: خانم (fa) (xânom), مادام (fa) (mâdâm)
• Polish: p. (pl) (Pani), pani (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sra
• Romanian: Dna f
• Russian: госпожа́ (ru) f (gospožá), г-жа (ru) f (g-ža), мада́м (ru) f (madám) (dated), ми́ссис (ru) f (míssis) (Anglophone context)
• Scottish Gaelic: A' Bh (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гђа f, го̏спођа f

  Roman: gđa f, gȍspođa (sh) f

• Slovak: pani f
• Slovene: Ga (sl), gospá (sl) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kněni f

• Sotho: Mme
• Spanish: Sra. (es) f, Señora f
• Swahili: Bi
• Swedish: fru (sv)
• Tagalog: Ginang, Gng, Misis (informal)
• Thai: นาง (th) (naang), คุณ (th) (kun)
• Tswana: mma
• Ukrainian: па́ні (uk) f (páni), мі́сіс f (mísis) (Anglophone context)
• Urdu: صاحبہ f (sāhiba)
• Vietnamese: bà (vi), cô (vi)
• Yiddish: (US): מיסעס f (mises)

Anagrams

• MSR, RMS, RMs, RSM, SMR, SRM

French

Noun

M^rs m

1. plural of M^r

Usage notes

• See usage notes at M.

See also

• M^lles
• M^mes