mademoiselle means “miss” | MotiTan French Dictionary

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Excusez-moi mademoiselle, où est la pharmacie ?

Excuse me, miss, where is the pharmacy?

A courteous form of direct address for a young woman, with a formal or old-fashioned tone.

madame: A respectful way to address an adult woman.
fille: A word for a girl or daughter.
femme: A word for a grown woman.

S'utilise comme formule d'interpellation pour une femme jeune ou non mariée, souvent perçu comme formel voire daté.

Mademoiselle combines the possessive form ma with demoiselle, which developed from Old French dameisele and ultimately from Latin domina.

In contemporary French, madame is generally preferred when mademoiselle could draw attention to marital status or sound dated.