missie

English

Etymology

miss +‎ -ie

Noun

missie (plural missies)

1. (informal) A young woman; miss.
   • An' that's why they took me, missie, that's why they took me.'

     Perspectives: A Course in Narrative Comprehension and Composition By Cecil Gray

   • 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader:

     "Well, then, to put it in a nutshell," said the Chief Voice, "we've been waiting for ever so long for a nice little girl from foreign parts, like it might be you, Missie—that would go upstairs and go to the magic book and find the spell that takes off the invisibleness, and say it. […] "

Anagrams

• Issime

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch missie, from French mission, Old French mission, from Latin missiō. Cognate to Indonesian misi.

Pronunciation

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Noun

missie (plural missies)

1. mission

Dutch

Etymology

From French mission (“a sending, a mission”), Old French mission (“expense”), from Latin missiō (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”), from mittō (“to send”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ.si/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mis‧sie

Noun

missie f (plural missies or missiën, diminutive missietje n)

1. mission, task
2. (Roman Catholicism) mission (proselytisation)

   Synonym: zending

Related terms

• remissie
• transmissie

Descendants

• Afrikaans: missie
• → Indonesian: misi