ms

• POS: Noun

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ms, abbr.
1 manuscript.
2 Master of Science.
3 Master of Surgery.
4 US Mississippi (in official postal use).
5 US motor ship.
6 multiple sclerosis.

ms, n. the title of a woman without a higher title, used regardless of marital status.

Etymology

combination of MRS, MISS(2)

THESAURUS

ms

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, article, autograph, brain disease, brainchild, cephalalgia, cerebral palsy, chorea, composition, computer printout, copy, document, draft, edited version, emotional disorder, engrossment, epilepsy, essay, fair copy, falling sickness, fiction, final draft, finished version, first draft, flimsy, glossopharyngeal neuralgia, headache, herpes zoster, holograph, ischialgia, letter, literae scriptae, literary artefact, literary production, literature, lucubration, manuscript, matter, migraine, multiple sclerosis, nervous disorder, neuralgia, neuritis, neuropathy, nonfiction, opus, organic psychosis, original, palsy, paper, parchment, penscript, piece, piece of writing, play, poem, polyneuritis, pressure neuropathy, priapism, printed matter, printout, production, radiculitis, reading matter, recension, sciatic neuritis, sciatica, screed, scrip, script, scrive, scroll, second draft, shaking palsy, shingles, spastic paralysis, the jerks, the written word, tic douloureux, toxic psychosis, transcript, transcription, typescript, version, work, writing

ROGET THESAURUS

ms

Writing

N writing, chirography, stelography, cerography, penmanship, craftmanship, quill driving, typewriting, writing, manuscript, MS, literae scriptae, these presents, stroke of the pen, dash of the pen, coupe de plume, line, headline, pen and ink, letter, uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic, contraction, Brahmi, Devanagari, Nagari, script, shorthand, stenography, brachygraphy, tachygraphy, secret writing, writing in cipher, cryptography, stenography, phonography, pasigraphy, Polygraphy, logography, copy, transcript, rescript, rough copy, fair copy, handwriting, signature, sign manual, autograph, monograph, holograph, hand, fist, calligraphy, good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand, cacography, griffonage, barbouillage, bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand, scribble, pattes de mouche, ill-formed letters, pothooks and hangers, stationery, pen, quill, goose quill, pencil, style, paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table, blackboard, ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well, typewriter, transcription, inscription, superscription, graphology, composition, authorship, cacoethes scribendi, graphoidea, graphomania, phrenoia, writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver, stenographer, typewriter, typist, writer for the press, writing, written, in writing, in black and white, under one's hand, uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical, currente calamo, pen in hand, audacter et sincere, le style est l'homme meme, nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill, scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons, that mighty instrument of little men, the pen became a clarion.