(woman) (also as a form of address)

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• Mistress (form of address) — This article is about Mistress as a form of address. For other uses, see Mistress. Mistress is an old form of address for a woman. It implies lady of the house , especially a woman who is head of a household. An example is Mistress Quickly in… …   Wikipedia

• form — n 1 Form, figure, shape, conformation, configuration are comparable when they denote the disposition or arrangement of content that gives a particular aspect or appearance to a thing as distinguished from the substance of which that thing is made …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• woman — lady, woman The division of usage between these two words is complex and is caught up in issues of social class. In George Meredith s Evan Harrington (1861), the heroine, Rose Jocelyn, is rhetorically asked, Would you rather be called a true… …   Modern English usage

• woman — noun plural women / wImIn/ 1 FEMALE (C) an adult female person: I was talking to a woman I met on the flight. | married women | a woman priest/driver etc: How long will it be until we have a woman President? | women s clothes/organization etc:… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• WOMAN — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the historical perspective biblical period marriage and children women in household life economic roles educational and managerial roles religious roles women outside the household… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Style (manner of address) — A style of office, or honorific, is a term which by tradition or law precedes a reference to a person who holds a post or title, or to the political office itself. An honorific can also be awarded to an individual in a personal capacity. Such… …   Wikipedia

• Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman — …   Wikipedia

• National Woman Suffrage Association — The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869 in New York City.[1] The National Association was created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association[2] over whether the woman s movement should… …   Wikipedia

• National American Woman Suffrage Association — The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an American women s rights organization formed in May 1890 as a unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).[1] The… …   Wikipedia

• Initial of last name, Mrs —    In George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss, Mrs Glegg is addressed as ‘Mrs G.’ by her husband. In The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens, Mr Weller Senior also uses this form of address to his wife on at least one occasion. The peculiarity of… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• mamma — 1570s, representing the native form of the reduplication of *ma that is nearly universal among the I.E. languages (Cf. Gk. mamme mother, grandmother, L. mamma, Pers. mama, Rus., Lith. mama mother, Ger. Muhme mother s sister, Fr. maman, Welsh mam… …   Etymology dictionary