Ms Definition

miz
mses., mss
abbreviation
Manuscript.
Webster's New World
Millisecond.
Webster's New World
Manuscript.
Webster's New World
Master of Science.
Webster's New World
Magnetic south.
American Heritage
noun
Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a woman or girl.
Ms. Doe; Ms. Jane Doe.
American Heritage
Used in informal titles for a woman to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity.
Ms. Fashionable; Ms. Volleyball.
American Heritage

Abbreviation of manuscript.

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Other Word Forms of Ms

Noun

Singular:
ms
Plural:
mss

Origin of Ms

  • Pre-19th century contraction of "Mistress" (http://www.buffalonews.com/opinion/columns/missmanners/index.html); widely adopted by feminists from the 1970s onwards as a non-sexist title that does not reveal or assume the marital status of the woman to which it is applied, by analogy with Mr, which functions in this way.

    From Wiktionary

  • Blend of Miss Mrs.

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ms Sentence Examples

  • Clara couldn't be expected to know she hated being called Ms.

  • All these last-mentioned Psalters are still in MS.

  • In 1632 Evstratie the Logofet (logothete) also translated a Pravild from the Greek, which remains in MS. In 1646 appeared the Pravilei aleasa, or " Selected Code," compiled, no doubt, by Evstratie and published with the authority .of the then reigning Prince Vasile Lupul (Basil the Wolf), hence known as the Code of Vasile.

  • Both are still in MS. The Old Slavonic annals were later on translated and new notes were added, each subsequent writer annexing the work of his predecessor, and prefixing his name to the entire compilation.

  • Unfortunately his writings, with a few exceptions, are still in MS. He is the author of the first history of the Rumanians in Dacia written according to the standards of Western science.

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