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English
Etymology
From mistress.
Pronunciation
Noun
Miss (plural Misses or Mlles)
- 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 Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D 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.
- Form of address for a teacher or a waitress.
Excuse me, Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again.
- (Philippines) A respectful term of address or reference to a woman of higher rank or position before the woman's given name or nickname.
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.
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
Translations
title
- Afrikaans: juffrou, mej.
- Albanian: zonjushë (sq) f
- 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) c
- Dutch: mejuffrouw (nl) f, juffrouw (nl) f
- Esperanto: fraŭlino (eo)
- Estonian: preili
- Faroese: frøkun f
- Finnish: neiti (fi) (Nti)
- French: mademoiselle (fr) f (obsolete), madame (fr) f (modern usage)
- Georgian: ქალიშვილი (ka) (kališvili)
- German: Fräulein (de) n, Frau (de) f (modern usage), Miss (de) f (in English contexts)
- Greek: δεσποινίδα (el) f (despoinída), δεσποινίς (el) f (despoinís), μις (el) f (mis)
- Hindi: सुश्री (hi) f (suśrī), मिस (hi) f (mis), कुमारी (hi) f (kumārī)
- Hungarian: kisasszony (hu)
- Icelandic: fröken f, ungfrú (is) f
- Ido: damzelo (io)
- Indonesian: nona (id)
- Irish: ógbhean, iníon (ga) f
- Italian: signorina (it) f
- Japanese: お嬢さん (ja) (おじょうさん, o-jō-san), お嬢様 (ja) (おじょうさま, o-jō-sama), -さん (ja) (-san) (generic for both sexes)
- Khmer: កញ្ញា (km) (kaññaa) (unmarried girl or waitress), អ្នកនាង (nĕək niəng) (high class of unmarried girl), នាង (km) (niəng) (waitress or unmarried girl), អ្នកគ្រូ (nĕək kruu) (female teacher)
- Korean: 미스 (ko) (miseu), 아가씨 (ko) (agassi), 숙녀(淑女) (ko) (sungnyeo)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: خوشکە (xuşke)
- Latin: dominula f
- Latvian: kundze f, kundzene f
- Lithuanian: panelė f
- Luxembourgish: Joffer (lb)
- Macedonian: госпо́ѓица f (gospóǵica)
- Malay: cik (ms)
- Maltese: sinjorina f
- Manx: cronnaghey
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: frøken m or f
- Occitan: domaisèla (oc)
- Persian: دوشیزه (fa) (dušize), دختر خانم (fa) (doxtar xânom), مادمازل (mâdmâzel)
- Polish: panna (pl) f
- Portuguese: senhorita (pt) f
- Romanian: domnișoara f, 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)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: го̏спођица f, гђица f
- Roman: gȍspođica (sh) f, gđica f
- Slovak: slečna f
- Slovene: gospodična (sl) f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: kněžna f
- Spanish: señorita (es) f
- Swedish: fröken (sv) c
- 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)
- Urdu: آنِسَہ (ur) f (ānisa)
- Vietnamese: cô (vi), chị (vi)
- Welsh: bonesig
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Anagrams
German
Etymology
Borrowed from English Miss.
Pronunciation
Noun
Miss f (genitive Miss, plural Misses or (beauty queen) Missen)
- Miss (form of address)
- title for a beauty queen
- Miss Deutschland ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Miss” in Duden online
- “Miss” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache