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Learn to pronounce mis·sus

/ˈmisəz/
noun
a person's wife.
"Doctor Jones and his missus"

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variants or missis. Synonyms of missus. 1. informal + old-fashioned : wife … everybody knew Mr. Levov and everybody asked after the missus and the boys ...
informal term of address for someone's wife. synonyms: missus. see moresee less. type of: married woman, wife. a married woman; a partner in marriage.
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1. Informal. wife. 2. the mistress of a household. [1780–90; assimilated pronoun of mistress].
​(slang, becoming old-fashioned) used by some people as a form of address to a woman whose name they do not know. Check pronunciation: missis ...
Icelandic edit. Noun edit. missis. indefinite genitive singular of missir. Latin edit. Pronunciation edit. (Classical) IPA: /ˈmis.siːs/, [ˈmɪs̠ːiːs̠] ...
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missus, missis /ˈmɪsɪz -ɪs/ n. the missus ⇒ informal one's wife or the wife of the person addressed or referred to; an informal term of address for a woman.