Miss

See also: miss, miß, Miß, miss-, miß-, and Miss.

English

Etymology

From mistress.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭs, IPA^(key): /mɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪz/

  Rhymes: -ɪs

Noun

Miss (plural Misses or Mlles)

1. 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 until the 1800s.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

2. Form of address for a teacher or a waitress.

   Excuse me, Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again.

Usage notes

• When referring to people with the same name, either of two forms may be used: Misses Brown or Miss Browns.

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

• Miss Emma
• Miss Fidditch
• Miss Lucy
• Miss Thang, Miss Thing

Translations

title

• Afrikaans: juffrou
• Albanian: zonjushë (sq)
• Arabic: آنِسَة (ar) f (ʔānisa)
• Armenian: օրիորդ (hy) (ōriord)
• Azerbaijani: xanımqız
• Basque: andereño
• Belarusian: па́нна f (pánna), спада́рычна f (spadáryčna), па́нна f (pánna), (also: madam) спада́рыня f (spadárynja), (also: madam) па́ні f (páni)
• Bulgarian: госпо́жица (bg) f (gospóžica)
• Chamicuro: ic̈hulupa
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 小姐 (siu² ze²)

  Mandarin: 小姐 (zh) (xiǎojiě)

• Czech: slečna (cs) f
• Danish: frøken (da) (Frk.)
• Dutch: mejuffrouw (nl) f (mej.), juffrouw (nl) f (juffr.)
• Esperanto: fraŭlino (eo) (F-ino)
• Estonian: preili (Prl.)
• Faroese: frøkun f
• Finnish: neiti (fi) (Nti)
• French: mademoiselle (fr) f (M^lle) (Not used anymore in official writing / by administration in France), madame (fr) f (M^me) (Most modern usage)
• Georgian: ქალიშვილი (kališvili)
• German: Fräulein (de) n (Frl.)
• Greek: δεσποινίδα (el) f (despoinída), δεσποινίς (el) f (despoinís)
• Hindi: सुश्री (hi) f (suśrī), मिस (hi) f (mis), कुमारी (hi) f (kumārī)
• Hungarian: kisasszony (hu)
• Icelandic: fröken f, ungfrú (is) f
• Indonesian: nona (id) (Nn.)
• Irish: ógbhean, iníon (ga) f
• Italian: signorina (it) f (Sig.na)
• Japanese: お嬢さん (おじょうさん, o-jō-san), お嬢様 (おじょうさま, o-jō-sama), -さん (ja) (-san) (generic for both sexes)
• Khmer: កញ្ញា (km) (kanha) (unmarried girl or waitress), អ្នកនាង (neak neang) (high class of unmarried girl), នាង (km) (neang)(waitress or unmarried girl), អ្នកគ្រូ (neak krue) (female teacher)
• Korean: 미스 (ko) (miseu), 아가씨 (ko) (agassi), 숙녀 (ko) (sungnyeo)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

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• Latin: dominula f
• Latvian: jaunkundze f (Jk-dze)
• Lithuanian: panelė f
• Luxembourgish: Joffer (lb)
• Macedonian: госпо́ѓица f (gospóǵica) (г-ѓица)
• Malay: cik
• Maltese: sinjorina f
• Manx: cronnaghey
• Norwegian: frøken (frk.)
• Occitan: domaisèla (oc)
• Persian: دوشیزه (fa) (dušize), دختر خانم (fa) (doxtar xânom), مادمازل (mâdmâzel)
• Polish: panna (pl) f
• Portuguese: senhorita (pt) f (Srta.)
• Romanian: domnișoara f (D-ra), Dra
• Russian: ба́рышня (ru) f (báryšnja), де́вушка (ru) f (dévuška), мадемуазе́ль (ru) f (madɛmuazɛ́lʹ), мисс (ru) f (miss) (in translations), (also: madam) госпожа́ (ru) f (gospožá)
• Sanskrit: कुमाऋ f (kumāṛ)
• Scottish Gaelic: maighdeann (gd) (Mh.)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: госпођица f, гђица f

  Roman: gospođica (sh) f, gđica f

• Slovak: slečna f
• Slovene: gospodična (sl) f (Gdč.)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kněžna f

• Spanish: señorita (es) f (Srta)
• Swedish: fröken (sv) (Frk.)
• Tagalog: (Bb.) binibini
• Thai: นางสาว (th) (naang-sǎao)
• Turkish: bayan (tr)
• Ukrainian: па́нна f (pánna), ба́ришня (uk) f (báryšnja), (also: madam) па́ні (uk) f (páni)
• Vietnamese: cô (vi), chị (vi)
• Welsh: bonesig

Anagrams

• ISMS, MSIs, SIMS, Sims, isms, sims

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German

Alternative forms

• Miß (superseded)

Noun

Miss f (genitive Miss, plural Misses)

1. title for a beauty queen

Derived terms

• Misswahl (“beauty contest”)