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“Misses” or “Missus” or “Mrs.”

misses / missus / mrs. are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

misses m·IH·s·ah·z

  • nouna failure to hit (or meet or find etc).
  • nouna form of address for an unmarried woman.
  • verbfail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.
  • verbfeel or suffer from the lack of.
  • verbfail to attend an event or activity.
  • verbfail to reach or get to.
  • verbbe without.
  • verbfail to reach.
  • verbbe absent.
  • verbfail to experience.

missus m·IH·s·ih·z

  • nouninformal term of address for someone's wife.

mrs. m·IH·s·ih·z

No dictionary entry for this spelling — see the usage examples below for how it shows up in writing.

Usage

Examples in context

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“misses”

  • …again after Oz confesses he misses her ("Amends").
  • …here is a Frenchman who misses his target 6 out of…
  • As a result, Harry misses his birthday party that his…
  • …calls, she is out and misses the call.
  • Her latest work Mrs Death Misses Death is a debut fiction.
  • …really pants after beauty, and misses his late wife very much,…
  • If Mr. Papi misses a platform and falls, the…
  • Chubby tries but misses, hitting a man in the
  • …Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
  • …little part of us that misses Swift's very personal and idiosyncratic…

“missus”

  • "Space Guerilla" by Missus Beastly

“mrs.”

  • …helped intensify the opposition of Mrs. Calhoun's group.
  • …and the chateau—was sold to Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt.
  • …Mrs Hemming) was a portrait painter.
  • Mary Patton as Mrs Ralston (uncredited)
  • …Co., Chickasaw, Alabama; sponsored by Mrs. C. E. Isherwood; and commissioned…
  • …the Uromi Kingdom in Edo State.
  • …the 1850s the Rector's wife Mrs. William Richmond transformed the John…
  • …to Remember (1958) as Mrs Clarke
  • Linda Hunt as Mrs. Oxheart
  • The principal of MHS is Mrs. Futch.

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