MRS.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Mris. (obsolete)
• Mrs. (US, Canada)
• M

語源

From mistress.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɪsɪz/, /-səz/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɪsɪz/, /-sɪs/
• (米国発音 dialects, especially Southern 米国発音, Michigan) enPR: mĭs IPA: /ˈmɪs/, /ˈmɪz/
• 異形同音異義語: Misses, misses, Ms, miss (see further homophones in Ms)
• 韻: -ɪsɪz

名詞

Mrs (plural Mmes or Mesdames or (rare) Mrses)

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, divorced and widowed women and used with their married surnames)
   • 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act III, scene iii, page 52:

     Mrs Mal[aprop]. O, there's nothing to be hoped for from her! ſhe'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 […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, 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 XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

等位語

• (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)

派生語

• missus
• misses
• Mrs. Grundy
• Mrs Miggins

関連する語

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

派生した語

• → Yiddish: מיסעס (mises)

アナグラム

• MSR, RMS, RMs, RSM, SMR, SRM

名詞

Mrs. (plural Mmes. or Mesdames or (rare) Mrses.)

1. US and Canada standard form of Mrs.
   • 1908, L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:

     That left me an orphan and folks were at their wits’ end, so Mrs. Thomas said, what to do with me. […] Finally Mrs. Thomas said she’d take me, though she was poor and had a drunken husband. She brought me up by hand. Do you know if there is anything in being brought up by hand that ought to make people who are brought up that way better than other people? Because whenever I was naughty Mrs. Thomas would ask me how I could be such a bad girl when she had brought me up by hand--reproachful-like.

派生語

アナグラム

• MSR, RMS, RMs, RSM, SMR, SRM