What is the difference between mrs and mr?
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(UK) A title used before an adult female's name or surname. Traditionally reserved for married individuals and used with the married surname.
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As abbreviations the difference between mrs and mr
is that mrs is a title used before an adult female's name or surname. Traditionally reserved for married individuals and used with the married surname while Mr is an abbreviation of mister, a title used before the surname in theory, though not generally in practice, above some undefined social level, too old to be addressed as “Master”, not a knight or of some higher rank, and, in Britain though not in the United States, not entitled to be addressed as “Dr”.As an initialism MRS
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(Mmes)- Mrs Malaprop said, “He’s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”
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