Miss

From mistress.

• enPR: mĭs, IPA^(key): /mɪs/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪz/

  Rhymes: -ɪs

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.

• 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.

• (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)}

• Miss Emma
• Miss Fidditch
• Miss Girl
• Miss Lucy
• Miss Piggy
• Miss Thang, Miss Thing

• ISMs, isms, MSiS, SIMS, Sims, ISMS, MSIs, sims, SMIs

• Miß (superseded)

Borrowed from English Miss.

• IPA^(key): /mɪs/

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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)

• Misswahl (“beauty contest”)

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