senorita
senorita Lexical Profile
senorita Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An unmarried Spanish or Spanish-speaking woman or girl, or a title of courtesy equivalent to 'Miss' used before her name or as a form of address.
"The polite waiter greeted the young senorita and showed her to a table on the terrace."
North American A small, slender marine wrasse (Oxyjulis californica) native to the kelp forests and coastal waters of California and Baja California, having a Cigar-shaped body with golden-brown scales and a dark mark on the tail fin.
"While scuba diving through the giant kelp beds off Catalina Island, we watched a school of senoritas picking tiny parasites off larger fish."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish señorita, the diminutive form of señora ('lady' or 'mistress'), which ultimately derives from the Latin comparative adjective senior ('older').