Mister Definition

mĭstər
noun
A title used in speaking to or of a man and placed before the name or title of office.
Webster's New World
A title before a name of a place, occupation, activity, etc. or before a quality.
Mr. Television, Mr. Nice Guy.
Webster's New World
The official title of address for.
Webster's New World
Used as a form of address for a man.
Watch your step, mister.
American Heritage
Used as a term of reference by a woman of her husband.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • mr
  • señor (Spanish)
  • tovarishch (all Russian)
  • grazhdanin
  • gospodin
  • señor (Spanish)
  • signor (Italian)
  • Herr (German)
  • monsieur (French)
  • man
  • esq
  • esquire
  • sir
verb

To address by the title of "mister".

Wiktionary

(obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.

Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Mister

Noun

Singular:
Mister
Plural:
misters

Origin of Mister

  • From Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry") with Latin mysterium (“mystery").

    From Wiktionary

  • Unaccented variant of master in french, influenced by magister in latin, maistre in old french and Meister in german.

    From Wiktionary

  • Unaccented variant of master

    From Wiktionary

  • Alteration of master

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

  • mist +"Ž -er.

    From Wiktionary

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