Ms
Title used before an adult woman's name or surname, especially when it is not desired…Title used before an adult woman's name or surname, especially when it is not desired or possible to indicate her marital status with Miss or Mrs.
» What subject does Ms. Jackson teach?
Welches Fach unterrichtet Fräulein Hansen?
Meaning
2 sensesTitle used before an adult woman's name or surname, especially when it is not desired or possible to indicate her marital status with Miss or Mrs.
Ms Jane Doe; Ms. Roe
Title used for a woman before a place, name, thing, or description that she is supposed to typify or represent.
Ms Efficiency and Ms Right
Frau
госпожа́gospožá, г-жаg-ža
- a form of address for a woman
- the form of a literary work submitted for publication
- a master's degree in science
- a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
Examples
75 sentencesWhat subject does Ms. Jackson teach?
deWelches Fach unterrichtet Fräulein Hansen?
Ms. Jackson was my French teacher.
Ms. Jackson was a wonderful teacher.
May I talk to Ms. Brown?
Чи я можу поговорити з пані Браун?
ruЯ могу поговорить с мисс Браун?
deKönnte ich Fräulein Brown sprechen?
Ms. Jackson bawled Tom out for sleeping in class.
Translations
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Origin
Found since the 1600s as an abbreviation of mistress (whence also Miss and Mrs), a title wFound since the 1600s as an abbreviation of mistress (whence also Miss and Mrs), a title which initially did not indicate marital status. Suggestions that the term be revived began in 1901, and referenced the fact that dialects such as Southern US English already made no distinction between Miss and Mrs (/ˈmɪz/) in speech. With the founding of the magazine Ms. in 1971, the term quickly became widespread as an alternative to Miss and Mrs., which require knowing (and publicizing) the referent's marital status.
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Forms
plural: Mss / MsesSynonyms
12 synonyms- a form of address for a woman:Ms.
- the form of a literary work submitted for publication:manuscript
- a master's degree in science:Master of ScienceSMMSc
- a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers:multiple sclerosisdisseminated sclerosisdisseminated multiple sclerosis
- a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War:MississippiMagnolia StateMiss.