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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Used as a courtesy title for a married or widowed woman before the surname or full name of her husband.
  • noun Used as a courtesy title for a married, widowed, or divorced woman before her own surname or full name.
  • noun Used in informal titles for a married woman to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of Mistress or Missis.
  • noun An abbreviation of Member of the Royal Society of Literature.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • The customary abbreviation of Mistress or Missess when used as a title of courtesy, in writing and printing.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a form of address for a married woman
  • noun a form of address for a married woman

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Abbreviation of mistress.]

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