Miss

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

English

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Etymology

From mistress.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: mĭs, IPA(key): /mɪs/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (colloquial) 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.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      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.
  • Both Miss and Mrs are frequently replaced by Ms in current usage.
  • The use of Miss with a first name only, as in Miss Julia was common in the Southern U.S. only. Elsewhere only the full or last names were possible: Miss Brown, Miss Julia Brown.

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Etymology

Borrowed from English Miss.

Pronunciation

Noun

Miss f (genitive Miss, plural Misses or (beauty queen) Missen)

  1. Miss (form of address)
  2. title for a beauty queen
    Miss Deutschland ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension

Declension of Miss
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative eine die Miss die Misses, Missen
genitive einer der Miss der Misses, Missen
dative einer der Miss den Misses, Missen
accusative eine die Miss die Misses, Missen

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Further reading

  • “Miss” in Duden online
  • “Miss” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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