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Definition: Mrs |
MrsNoun1. A form of address for a married woman. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Mrs" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | MRS Modifiable Representation System. An integration of logic programming into Lisp. ["A Modifiable Representation System", M. Genesereth et al, HPP 80-22, CS Dept Stanford U 1980]. (1994-11-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MRS | English | Marseille | N/A |
| Mrs. | English | Mistress | Language, Social Sciences |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fashion | Manners, breeding; (politeness); air, demeanor; (appearance); savoir faire; gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety, biens_ance; conventions of society; Mrs. Grundy; punctilio; form, formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress. |
Misnomer | Noun: misnomer; lucus a non lucendo; Mrs. Malaprop; what d'ye call 'em; (neologism); Hoosier. |
Woman | Dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs. lady, donna belle, matron, dowager, goody, gammer; Frau, frow, Vrouw, rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife. (marriage); matronage, matronhood. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Do you ever have deja vu Mrs. Lancaster (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis.) I slept alone, Mrs. Lancaster (Groundhog Day; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) I am an exceptional thief, Mrs. McClane (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart) Mrs. Thompson, I know you must hate me right now but there's something I want you to have (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) Please let it be a Mrs. Potato Head, Mrs (Toy Story; writing credit: John Lasseter; Andrew Stanton) | |
Lyrics | And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson (MRS. ROBINSON; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) God bless you please, Mrs. Robinson (MRS. ROBINSON; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) What's that you say, Mrs. Robinson (MRS. ROBINSON; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) Mrs. Tucker will enter the joint (RAY'S ROCKHOUSE; performing artist: Manhattan Transfer) See Mrs. Gray she's proud today because her roses are in bloom (Pleasant Valley Sunday; performing artist: The Monkees) | |
Clever | Plenty of love, tons of kisses, hope some day to be your Mrs. (references; author: unknown) Mrs. Johnson will be entering the hospital this week for testes. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | Mrs. Smith's Fish Sauce Shop. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mr. and Mrs. (1999) The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (1974) From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973) Big Soft Nelly Mrs. Mouse (1971) McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) | |
Song Titles | Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daugher (performing artist: Herman's Hermits) Mrs. Robinson (performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) | |
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Members of the first National Advisory Cancer Council at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the NCI's building 6 in June, 1938. (Left to right) Francis Wood, C.C Little, James Ewing, Arthur Compton, James Conant, Thomas Parran, and Ludwig Hektoen. This new building, erected on land donated by Mrs. Luke J. Wilson was the fourth to be constructed in the complex that is now the National Institutes of Health. The structure was unique in that year of 1939, with its physical equipment and facilities designed solely for scientific research in a specialized field of science. Building 6 was to house the National Cancer Institute, the first of the nine specialized institutes that would comprise NIH. See also ar003810. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | Secretary of the treasury, Henry Morgenthau wields the trowel during the cornerstone laying for NCI's building 6 on June 24, 1939. Mrs. Luke Wilson, whose husband, a cancer victim, donated the land for the building, and Dr. Thomas Parron, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, look on. The PHS was then a part of the Treasury Department. See also ar000175. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | ||
![]() | Elsa DeWind, long-time resident of Lovango Cay Mrs. DeWind came from New York City in the 1930's Married a native fisherman and lived happily ever after. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Mrs. Morgen attempting to domesticate an armadillo Field camp in south Texas Triangulation party of Carl Aslakson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Mrs. Peacock being carried ashore from small boat She accompanied her husband on ship during his tour as commanding officer Off the MARINDUQUE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Riding the rickshaws at Shanghai on the way out to the Philippines Future Rear Admiral and Mrs. Paul A. Smith. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Mrs. Boyno, a Lapp woman, married to the late Peter Bals, an Alaskan immigrant. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Hammond Bennett vists a farm in Coon Valley, Wisconsin. Credit: M. F. Schweers. |
![]() | Mrs. Miller picks okra on the Miller farm near Macon, MS. Credit: USDA. | ![]() | Mrs Miller picks okra on the Miller Farm near Macon, MS. Credit: USDA. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt | Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. |
Mrs. Hemans | Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. |
Mrs. Jameson | In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose, a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of thought. |
Mrs. Patrick Campbell | "Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone." |
| Does it really matter what these affectionate people do -- so long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses! | |
Oscar Wilde | Lord Illingworth: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. Mrs. Allonby: No man does. That is his. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Emma was not required, by any subsequent discovery, to retract her ill opinion of Mrs. Elton |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mrs Dedalus followed and the places were arranged |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Mrs. Wainwright got up and walked to the doorway |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The list of chemicals requiring certification plus modules is determined by Government regulation No. 400/99. To obtain very detailed instructions for certification, including application forms and fees, please contact Mrs. Lukacikova and Mrs. Andocova at the Research institute for Building and Plastic Materials (VUSAPL). (references) | |
Children | Nicaragua | Mrs. Aleman headed the National Council for the Protection of Children and the National Council for the Eradication of Child Labor. (references) |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | In 1970, Mrs. Bandaranaike again assumed the premiership. (references) |
Guyana | She was sworn in on December 19. Mrs. Jagan is a founding member of the PPP and was very active in party politics. (references) | |
Travel | Mauritius | An airport service charge of MRS. 400 ($14) is levied on departing passengers. (references) |
Mauritius | The normal tariff for calls to the United States is currently at MRS 35 ($1.2) per minute. (references) | |
Vietnam | You should always address your contacts as Mr., Mrs., Ms. or Miss followed by the given name. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEONINE, adj. Unlike a menagerie lion. Leonine verses are those in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end, as in this famous passage from Bella Peeler Silcox: The electric light invades the dunnest deep of Hades. Cries Pluto, 'twixt his snores: "O tempora! O mores!" It should be explained that Mrs. Silcox does not undertake to teach pronunciation of the Greek and Latin tongues. Leonine verses are so called in honor of a poet named Leo, whom prosodists appear to find a pleasure in believing to have been the first to discover that a rhyming couplet could be run into a single line. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Billy Martin | Until we find Chandra or until we find out what happened to Chandra, I know that Dr. and Mrs. Levy will never feel that the police or anybody has done enough. They want their daughter back, so they're not pleased. |
Dominick Dunne | Listen, I'm not going to forget Chandra Levy. I mean, you know, I feel so sorry for Dr. and Mrs. Levy, with whom I've spoken on several occasions, a wonderful couple. And yeah, I'm not going to let go of this. I mean, I don't think we should forget this. |
John Hartmann | Jim, let me tell you something. There's going to be a whole bunch of things we don't tell Mrs. Clinton. |
Julie Nixon Eisenhower | I want to express my appreciation to my Chinese voice. To Mrs. Chung. I listen to her translation. She got every word right. |
Lynne Cheney | The federal government has a strong Sunshine Law as well. And that's what Mrs. Clinton ran afoul of. She brought in people from the outside, treated them as government employees to have meetings. So that was the problem. |
Robert Novak | Mrs. Dole, there's a lot of worries about a double-dip recession. The president is having an economic forum in Texas, coming up. |
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| "Mrs" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.96% of the time. "Mrs" is used about 19,824 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 99.96% | 19,816 | 449 |
| Noun (common) | 0.04% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 19,824 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | MRS Technology, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Mrs": Mrs-peters. | |
Ending with "Mrs": Ex-mrs. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mrs field cookie | 364 | mrs winner | 58 |
mrs silk | 331 | lyrics mrs robinson | 57 |
mrs field | 293 | blondie dithers mrs | 53 |
mrs | 219 | mrs rabin | 53 |
mrs dalloway | 149 | mrs silks | 49 |
mrs universe | 136 | copperfield mrs | 47 |
mrs doubtfire | 130 | 2003 mrs universe | 47 |
mrs world | 114 | mrs grossmans sticker | 44 |
america mrs | 113 | mrs grossmans | 44 |
mrs robinson | 106 | iyer mr mrs | 44 |
scarecrow and mrs king | 88 | fact garrett life mrs | 43 |
gorbachev mrs | 80 | mrs grossman | 41 |
mrs dash | 79 | mrs frisby rat nimh | 37 |
mrs field cookie recipe | 77 | giggle mrs | 36 |
mrs pac man | 75 | mrs beasley doll | 35 |
me and mrs jones | 71 | associate mrs | 34 |
mrs beasleys | 68 | america mrs pageant | 34 |
the ghost and mrs muir | 66 | mrs state united | 33 |
mrs beasley | 66 | garson miniver mrs | 33 |
mrs silk.com | 61 | mrs miniver | 32 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Mrs"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 夫人 (Ladies, LADY, madam, Madams). (various references) | |
Czech | paní (lady, madam, Mademoiselle, mistress, Mrs., ms, woman). (various references) | |
Danish | cerebral spektroskopi med magnetisk resonans (brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy, brain MR spectroscopy, brain MRS). (various references) | |
Dutch | kernspintomografie van de hersenen (brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy, brain MR spectroscopy, brain MRS). (various references) | |
Finnish | aivojen magneettispektroskopia (brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy, brain MR spectroscopy, brain MRS). (various references) | |
French | madame (mrs.). (various references) | |
German | Frau (broad, female, femme, lady, madam, mate, missus, mrs., Ms, ms., signora, wife, woman). (various references) | |
Greek | κυρία (gentlewoman, girder, lady, madam, milady, missis, mistress). (various references) | |
Italian | signora (gentlewoman, lady, ma'am, madam, missis, missus, mistress, Mrs., ms, signora, tradesman, wife, woman). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ミシン糸 (automatic transmission, beauty contest to name Miss Xxxxx, crop circle, mediocracy, medium, medium rare, medium size, Mick, middy, middy look, midget, midget house, midi, midi communication, midnight, midnight blue, midnight show, MIPS, MIS, miscasting, miserable, misery index, misfortune, misjudgement, mislead, mis-match, misprint, miss, mission, mission school, Missouri, mist, mistake, mister, mistral, misty, misunderstanding, mitochondria, mitt, Mitterrand, mix, mixed doubles, mixed juice, mixed media, Mr, Ms., mysterious, mystery, mystery circle, mysticism, mystification, myth, sewing cotton, transvestite), 夫人 (madam, wife), 夫人 (madam, wife), 令閨 (his wife, your wife), 令夫人 (Lady, Madam, your wife). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ミセズ , ミセス , ふじ" (battle formation, female, heartlessness, inhumanity, lineup, madam, Very sincerely yours, wife, woman), れいふじ" (Lady, Madam, your wife), れいけい (his wife, your elder brother, your wife). (various references) | |
Korean | 여사. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | mrsay.(various references) | |
Russian | м-с (mrs.). (various references) | |
Spanish | Sra. (mrs., ms.). (various references) | |
Turkish | hanım (Dame, lady, mamasan, Miss, missis, mistress, mrs., ms, ms., rib, wife, wifie), bayan (Dame, female, lady, lady's, madam, Madame, Miss, missis, mistress, Mrs., Mrs./Ms., ms, ms., spinster, unmarried woman, waitress, woman). (various references) | |
Wolof | madam. (various references) | |
Xhosa | nkosikazi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words containing the letters "m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arms, mars, mirs, mors, rams, rems, rims, roms, rums. | |
+2 letters: amirs, arums, barms, berms, brims, corms, crams, derms, dorms, drams, drums, emirs, farms, firms, forms, germs, grams, harms, herms, maars, mairs, marcs, mares, marks, marls, marse, marsh, marts, maser, meres, merks, merls, mires, mirks, miser, moors, moras, mores, morns, morse, morts, muras, mures, murks, murrs, muser, norms, omers, perms, prams, prims, prism, proms, ramps, ramus, reams, rimes, roams, romps, rooms, rumps, scram, scrim, scrum, serum, simar, smarm, smart, smear, smerk, smirk, sperm, storm, strum, swarm, terms, trams, trims, warms, worms. | |
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