Miss

• enPR: mĭs, IPA^(key): /mɪs/
• (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 until the 1800s.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

• (titles) (of a man): Mr (Mister, mister), Sir (sir); (of a woman): Ms (Miz, mizz), Mrs (Mistress, mistress), Miss (miss), Dame (dame), (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor), Madam (madam, ma'am) ^{(Category: en:Titles)}

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

• ISMS, MSIs, SIMS, Sims, isms, sims

• Miß (superseded)

Miss f (genitive Miss, plural Misses)

1. title for a beauty queen

• Misswahl (“beauty contest”)