Mrs

• Mris. (obsolete)
• Mrs. (US, Canada)
• M^rs

From mistress.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsɪz/, /-səz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsɪz/, /-sɪs/

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• (US dialects, especially Southern US, Michigan) enPR: mĭs IPA^(key): /ˈmɪs/, /ˈmɪz/
• Homophones: Misses, misses, Ms, miss (see further homophones in Ms)
• Rhymes: -ɪsɪz

Mrs (plural Mmes or Mesdames or (rare) Mrses)

1. Abbreviation of Missus or 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 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 52:

     Mrs Mal[aprop]. O, there's nothing to be hoped for from her! ſhe'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 […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, 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 XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

• (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)}

• missus
• misses
• Mrs. degree
• Mrs. Grundy
• Mrs Miggins

• Ms / Ms. (title for an adult female)
• Miss

• → Yiddish: מיסעס (mises)

• MSR, RMS, RMs, RSM, SMR, SRM

M^rs m

1. plural of M^r

• See usage notes at M.

• M^lles
• M^mes