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Definition: Mrs

Mrs

Noun

1. 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)

 

Specialty Definition: Mrs

DomainDefinition

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Mrs

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.
EntrySourceExpressionField

MRS

EnglishMarseilleN/A
Mrs.EnglishMistressLanguage, Social Sciences

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms within Context: Mrs

ContextSynonyms 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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Crosswords: Mrs

English words defined with "Mrs": certainFrauhenceforth, henceforwardseat, Señora, signora, sit, sit downTirrit, To be in. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Mrs": ABRAHAM, Action Sermon, Actresses, AMBASSADOR OF MOROCCO, Anna Matilda, Asparagus, AstreaBack and Edge, BEATRICE, BISHOP, Body-snatcher, Brooks of Sheffield, BROWNING, Browns, Buchanites, Button-holeCasabianca, Charlotte Elizabeth, Chien, Chlo'e, Cockledemoy, Cousin BetsyDAVID, Diggory, Durham MustardEDDY, EVEFanny Fern, Favourites, Florizel, Forgive, blest Shade, FraserianGall and Wormwood, George Geith, Glasse, Grey Mare, GrundyHEMANS, Huggins and MugginsJettatura, JUDYL. E. L, LANGTRY, Legree, leonine, LOTM. B. Waistcoat, MACHINES, Markham, MiggsNERO, Nimini Pimini, NoakesOrinda, OTHELLOPANKHURST, Pantile Shop, Partington, Poker TalkQuesta Cortesissima, Questa Gentilissima, QuinapalusRamsbottomSalt Bread, Sarnia, Sartor Resartus, Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, Siccis pedibus, Silver Fork School, Simon Pure, Singular Nouns, Sneck Posset, Sour Grapeism, Sparrowgrass, SUFFRAGETTETLAs, TOMWhite Lies, WIGGS, WINSLOWZOUAVE. (references)
Etymologies containing "Mrs": malapropism. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Mrs" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Pidgin English (Mrs.), Tagalog (Mrs.).

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Modern Usage: Mrs

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mrs

DomainTitle

References

  • MRS Technology, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Dr. Johnson's Mrs. Thrale : an imaginary monologue to be read or acted based on Mrs. Thrale's own diaries and reminiscences of Dr. Johnson (reference)

  • The Lady of Arlington: The Life of Mrs. Robert E. Lee (reference)

  • The Seduction of Mrs Caine [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  • Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle (reference)

  • Day in the Life of Mrs. Murphy: Murphy's Law Ad Infinitum (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Mrs

Photos:
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Computer Images:
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Photo Album: Mrs

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

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.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Mrs

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Mrs

TitleAuthorQuote

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Mrs

SubjectTopicQuote

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Mrs

SpeakerPhrase(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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Mrs

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)99.96%19,816449
Noun (common)0.04%7133,076
                    Total100.00%19,824N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Mrs

CountryName
USA

MRS Technology, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Mrs

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Mrs": Mrs-peters.

Ending with "Mrs": Ex-mrs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mrs

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translation: Mrs

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.

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Anagrams: Mrs

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Company Usage
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Abbreviations
17. Acronyms
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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