Mrs
see also: MRS
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈmɪsɪz/, /ˈmɪsəz/
  • (US dialects, especially, Southern US, Michigan) enPR: mĭs IPA: /ˈmɪs/, /ˈmɪz/
Noun

Mrs (plural Mmes)

  1. Abbreviation of Missus#English|Missus or Mistress#English|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 [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], OCLC 13623666 ↗, 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 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071 ↗:
      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.
Related terms Translations
MRS
Proper noun
  1. Initialism of Materials Research Society
  2. Initialism of Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
Noun

Mrs

  1. Initialism of magnetic resonance spectroscopy
  2. Initialism of mandibular repositioning splint
  3. Initialism of marginal rate of substitution
  4. Initialism of metabolic risk score



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