Mr. Definition

mĭstər
messrs
noun
Mister. Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a man.
American Heritage
Used in informal titles for a man to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity.
Mr. Suave; Mr. Baseball.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
abbreviation
March.
Webster's New World
Mister.
Webster's New World

The ccTLD for Mauritania as assigned by the IANA.

Wiktionary

Origin of Mr.

  • Middle English abbreviation of maister master master

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mr. Sentence Examples

  • Mr Bentham did not talk much.

  • A Monograph of the Odontophorinae or Partridges of America (1850); The Birds of Asia, in seven volumes, the last completed by Mr Sharpe (1850-1883); The Birds of Great Britain, in five volumes (1863-1873); and The Birds of New Guinea, begun in 1875, and, after the author's death in 1881, undertaken by Mr Sharpe, make up the wonderful tale consisting of more than forty folio volumes, and containing more than three thousand coloured plates.

  • On the first day of the next year, 1861, Mr Stuart again started for a second attempt to cross the continent, which occupied him eight months.

  • Mr Stuart, in 1862, made his third and final attempt to traverse the continent from Adelaide along a central line, which, inclining a little westward, reaches the north coast of Arnheim Land, opposite Melville Island.

  • Having crossed a table-land of sandstone which divides these streams from those running to the western shores of Arnheim Land, Mr Stuart, in the month of July, passed down what is called the Adelaide river of north Australia.

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