Miss

E335280

Miss is a traditional English honorific used before the surname or full name of an unmarried or younger woman.

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Label Occurrences
Miss canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf form of address
honorific
title
abbreviationOf Mistress
contrastsWith Mr.
Mrs.
Ms.
culturalOrigin England
culturalUsage Anglophone countries
denotes female marital status as unmarried
respectful address to a girl or young woman
genderAssociation female
grammaticalCategory noun
hasVariant Miss.
historicalDerivation shortened from Mistress
language English
politenessRegister polite
positionInName before full name
before surname
typicalAgeGroup girls
younger adults
typicalMaritalStatus unmarried
usedFor unmarried woman
younger woman
usedInContext formal address
semi-formal address
spoken address
written address
usedWith woman’s full name
woman’s surname

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.