Mme

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A form of madame — A title equivalent to Mrs. or Ms., used for French-speaking women and (by custom) certain other individuals. It is abbreviated as Mme.

Less commonScrabble 7

Meanings

Mme1

nounMme (plural Mmes)

plural Mmes · alternative Mme.

  1. abbreviationAbbreviation of Madame.

    After the latter’s death, Meyerson remained Mme Bernard-Lazare’s trusted friend.

    1978, Nelly Wilson, Bernard-Lazare: Antisemitism and the Problems of Jewish Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century France, Cambridge University Press, published 2010, →ISBN, page 318
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    With them were the two royal children, Mmes Tantes (the elderly daughters of Louis XV), Mme Elisabeth, the Comic de Provence and his wife.

    1922, Paul Gruyer, A Week at Versailles: The Town, the Palace, the Park, the Trianon Palaces, page 71

    In The Bernadinis’ Terrace, gracefully translated by Joanna Kilmartin, Mme Laure Bernardini and her companion, Mme Thérèse, are very old: ‘immobilised, like ships that have run aground, they exist minimally.’

    1975 August 7, Listener and BBC Television Review, page 190, column 1

    Mr. Parker added more wood to the fire and then he and Mme Dubois went in, leaving Miss Merrie behind with her wide-brimmed sun hat. Mme DuBois and Mr. Parker were the first to return and soon had their heads together checking the food hamper and cooler.

    2014, George J. Pappas, Where the Tides Meet: A Romance of the Gaspé, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 162

MME2

nounMME (plural MMEs)

plural MMEs

  1. abbreviationmedicineAbbreviation of morphine milligram equivalent.
  2. abbreviationinitialismbiologyInitialism of mass mortality event.

Origin

  1. FrenchMme
  2. FrenchMme
  3. EnglishMme

Borrowed from French Mme.

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