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fräulein
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Princeton's WordNet
Frauleinnoun
a German courtesy title or form of address for an unmarried woman
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frauleinnoun
A young German woman.
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fraulein
Fräulein ( FROY-lyne, German: [ˈfʁɔʏlaɪn] (listen)) is the German language honorific for unmarried women, comparable to Miss in English and Mademoiselle in French.
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fraulein
Fraulein is a German term, originally used as a courtesy title for an unmarried woman, equivalent to 'Miss' in English. However, it is now considered outdated and potentially disrespectful in contemporary German language, and the term "Frau" is preferred for all adult women.
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Fräulein
Fräulein is the German language honorific previously in common use for unmarried women, comparable to Miss in English. Fräulein is the diminutive form of Frau, which was previously reserved only for married women. Frau is in origin the equivalent of "Mylady" or "Madam", a form of address of a noblewoman. But by an ongoing process of devaluation of honorifics, it came to be used as the unmarked term for "woman" by about 1800. Therefore, Fräulein came to be interpreted as expressing a "diminutive of woman", as it were implying that a Fräulein is not-quite-a-woman. By the 1960s, this came to be seen as patronising by proponents of feminism, and during the 1970s and 1980s, the term Fräulein became nearly taboo in urban and official settings, while it remains an unmarked standard in many rural areas. This process was somewhat problematic, at least during the 1970s to 1980s, since many unmarried women of the older generation insisted on Fräulein as a term of distinction, respecting their status, and took the address of Frau as an offensive or suggestive of extra-marital sexual experience. Since the 1970s, Fräulein has come to be used less often, and was banned from official use in West Germany in 1972 by the Minister of the Interior. Nowadays, style guides and dictionaries recommend that all women be addressed as Frau regardless of marital status, particularly in formal situations. A newsletter published on the website of the German dictionary Duden in 2002, for instance, noted that women should only be addressed as Fräulein when they specifically request this form of address.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fräulein in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fräulein in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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