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miss
beauty-pageant titleholder ("Miss") /ˈmis/
noun#2113 most common
Also: beauty queen, beauty pageant winner
Example sentences
Sora mea este miss.
My sister is a beauty queen.
Ana vrea să devină miss.
Ana wants to become a beauty queen.
Anul trecut, o studentă din Iași a fost aleasă miss România.
Last year, a student from Iași was chosen Miss Romania.
Concursul de miss se organizează în fiecare vară în orașul nostru.
The beauty pageant is held every summer in our town.
Fosta miss România a lansat recent o fundație pentru sprijinirea tinerelor talentate.
The former Miss Romania recently launched a foundation to support talented young women.
Deși unii consideră concursurile de missuri depășite, ele continuă să atragă audiențe uriașe la televiziunile naționale.
Although some consider beauty pageants outdated, they still draw huge audiences on national television.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | miss | missuri |
| Genitive | miss | missuri |
| Accusative | miss | missuri |
| Vocative | miss | missuri |
Word family
missbeauty-pageant titleholder or title
missuribeauty queens (plural)
Miss Româniathe Miss Romania pageant or its titleholder
Miss Universthe Miss Universe pageant or its titleholder
domnișoarănative Romanian word for an unmarried young womanEtymology
Romanian borrowed "miss" directly from English in the 20th century, specifically for the beauty-pageant sense, and it has stayed largely unadapted in spelling and pronunciation. English "miss" itself began as a shortened form of "mistress," which came through Old French "maistresse" from Latin "magister," meaning master or teacher. So the word that now crowns a beauty queen in Romanian once meant a person of authority.
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