Mrs

• Mrs. (US, Canada)

From mistress.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsɪz/, /ˈmɪsəz/

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  Rhymes: -ɪsɪz

• (US dialects, especially, Southern American English, Michigan) enPR: mĭs IPA^(key): /ˈmɪs/, /ˈmɪz/

  Homophones: Ms, miss (see further homophones in Ms)

Mrs (plural Mmes)

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 women and used with their married surnames.
   • 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals:

     Mrs Malaprop said, “He’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 [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], OCLC 13623666, 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 12, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:

     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), (of a non-binary person): Mx (Mixter); (see also): Dr (Doctor, doctor), Madam (madam, ma'am) ^{(Category: en:Titles)}

• missus
• misses

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

• MSR, RMS, RMs, RSM, SRM

M^rs m

1. plural of M^r

• See usage notes at M.

• M^lles
• M^mes