# Miss
## English
### Etymology

From mistress.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: mĭs, IPA: /mɪs/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (colloquial) IPA: /ˈmɪz/
    Rhymes: -ɪs

### Noun

Miss (plural Misses or Mlles)
* 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.
** With a surname.
    These are the two young ladies that I wanted you to meet, Miss Jones and Miss Robinson.
** With a full name.
    The victim was named as Miss Jane Doe.
** (dated or regional) With a first name only.
    Excuse me Ma'am, will Miss Julia and Miss Emily be staying for tea?
*** 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.
** (dated) Used alone.
    Good morning, Miss. May I help you?
* Form of address for a female teacher or a waitress.
    Excuse me, Miss, Donny's been pinching my pencils again.
* Used in title of the (female) winner of a beauty contest, or certain other types of contest, prefixing the country or other region that she represents, or the category of contest.
    Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause to our lovely new Miss Yorkshire!
    And I can now announce that this year's Miss Personality is ... Doris Miggins!
* (often disparaging or sarcastic) Used in a mock title to point out some quality, or alleged quality, of a girl or woman.
    Don't ask me, ask Miss know-it-all over there.

#### Usage notes

* 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.
* In the US, 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. In the UK, Miss with a first name only was formerly associated with the speech of servants or lower-class persons when addressing or referring to their superiors.

#### Coordinate terms

* (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)

#### Derived terms

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

#### Translations
### Anagrams

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

## German
### Alternative forms

* Miß (superseded)

### Etymology

Borrowed from English Miss.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪs/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

Miss f (genitive Miss, plural Misses or (beauty queen) Missen)
* Miss (form of address)
* title for a beauty queen
    Miss Deutschland ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Derived terms

* Misswahl (“beauty contest”)

### Further reading

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