Meaning & use
Mrs
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A title used before the surname or full name of a married woman.
See it in a sentence
Please address the invitation to Mrs. Alvarez and her husband.
Mrs. Chen has taught third grade at the school for over twenty years.
A note on using this word
Historically an abbreviation of 'mistress,' though the full word is rarely used in this sense today; American English typically writes it with a period as 'Mrs.'
Words with an opposite meaning
mrmiss
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