señoritan.
/sɛnjəˈriːtə/ 1.
a. A Spanish title of respect prefixed to the name of a young lady, or used without the name in addressing her.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > [noun] > for woman > young unmarried > in languages other than English
mademoiselle?c1450
Mdlle.1785
signorina1786
señorita1850
1850 M. Reid Rifle Rangers II. i. 5 ‘Do not be alarmed, señorita’, said I, approaching.
b. A young Spanish lady.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Spaniards > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Spain > woman
señorita1823
Spaniardess1880
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > lady > young or little
ladyling1807
señorita1823
senhorita1874
1823 J. A. Quitman Let. 23 Aug. in J. F. H. Claiborne Life & Corr. J. A. Quitman (1860) I. iv. 85 The belles..‘tote’ their fans with the air of Spanish señoritas.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xiv. 320 In the evening we reached a comfortable farm-house, where there were several very pretty signoritas.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. i. 18 Caleb haint no monopoly to court the seenoreetas.
1886 Athenæum 28 Aug. 276/1 The artist..filled up his foreground with a group of Spanish señoritas.
2. A name given to a small labroid fish, Pseudojulis or Oxyjulis modestus, native in Californian waters. Also senorita-fish.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > suborder Labrioidei (wrasse) > [noun] > member of
razor-fish1753
stranger1875
senorita-fish1882
1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 604 Pseudojulis Bleeker. Señoritas.
1882 D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert Synopsis Fishes N. Amer. 604 P. modestus... Señorita; Pesce Rey.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 299 The Senorita-fish, of Monterey, Pseudojulis modestus, is known as ‘Pesce~rey’; southward it is called ‘Senorita’.
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