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Frau¹

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Frau.

noun Frauen · Fraus

  1. Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a (typically married) German-speaking woman. G. von Hoffmann’s Die Ochsenmenuette offered Frau von Berckel as Therese, Scherer as Istock, Lotti as Eduard, and Frauen Schmidt and Esden, and Graff, Lehmann and Kress in minor rôles.

    Similar: Fr.

frau²

  • /fɹaʊ/

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Where it comes from

Borrowed from German Frau. Doublet of frow, vrou, and vrouw.

noun fraus

  1. A woman, especially a German woman. To Germantown, Pa., the German frauen carried their domestic industry of the hand knitting of woolen hose, and before 1775 there were one hundred and fifty knitting frames at Germantown and in the vicinity of the Brandywine; […]

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Closest in meaning: madame, madam, mademoiselle, lady, mrs, woman, wife, unity, miss, unit, staar, haus, marchen, mme, missus, female

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noun a woman, especially a German woman

Русскийфра́у fráu

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@misc{frau_2026,
  title = {frau},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/frau},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}