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say it: miz
ms is a noun meaning "a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers". It is pronounced /ˈmɪz/ — miz. It carries 5 recorded senses.
a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers
a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War
a master's degree in science
the form of a literary work submitted for publication
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ms come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.