Mrs vs Mia - What's the difference?
mrs | mia |
(UK) A title used before an adult female's name or surname. Traditionally reserved for married individuals and used with the married surname.
* 1775 , (Richard Brinsley Sheridan), ''(The Rivals):
*, chapter=12
, title= Missing In Action
(Mormonism) Mutual Improvement Association
As an initialism mrs
is materials research society.As a proper noun mia is
.mrs
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Abbreviation
(Mmes)- Mrs Malaprop said, “He’s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
Derived terms
* missus * missesSee also
* Ms * Miss * Dr * MrAnagrams
* English suppletive nounsmia
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Initialism
(Initialism) (head)- When his patrol didn't come back from the front, he and all his buddies were listed as MIA .