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Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. n. Title conferred on an adult male.
  2. n. A device that makes or sprays mist.
  3. n. obsolete Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
  4. n. dialectal A kind, type of.
  5. n. obsolete Need (of something).
  6. n. obsolete Necessity; the necessary time.
  7. v. obsolete, impersonal To be necessary; to matter.

Etymologies

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

Examples

  • “The word mister, as a prefix, or the word esquire, as a suffix, seemed a superfluity.”

    Brave Men and Women

  • “The word mister sounded sharply, yet not unpleasingly, to my ear: it was the first time I had been so designated or so dignified.”

    Rattlin the Reefer

  • “Princess, Captain Falk's unwarrantable insult to Davie Paine -- it seems incongruous to call him "mister" -- was to play its part later in events that as yet were only gathering way.”

    The Mutineers

  • “No, not 'mister' -- just 'Jan,'" he answered, adopting her pronunciation.”

    Lying Prophets

  • “He’s the only trustee I called mister, but just because he was formal didn’t mean he wasn’t human.”

    Simon & Schuster: Generous Death

  • “I'm not able to get through right away so I take a breath and call the mister and do my best to let him know that I still have all my digits but there is a lot of blurd and I want to be sure so can he come home and gimme a ride?”

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  • “The mister was a tanker with the 3/64 at Conn, but he spent a lot of time at Ledward working in the post office.”

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  • “The mister was an Italian cloth merchant living in Bruges, in what is now Belgium.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Art Thief

  • “Another tool I used tonight is called a mister: put in your own olive oil and spray -- all to use less oil.”

    A Veggie Venture

  • “He explains, "There is a double play on the word mister - it says 'we are not that formal”

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synonyms (11)

Words with the same meaning

  1. manner
  2. kind
  1. sort
  2. need
  1. necessity
  2. Monsieur
  1. signor
  2. senhor
  1. señor
  2. Herr
  1. Mr.

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. form of address
  1. title
  1. title of respect

same context (3)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. ma'am
  1. girlie
  1. sweetie

rhymes (12)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Lister
  2. Mr
  1. Mr.
  2. Sister
  1. Sr
  2. Twister
  1. blister
  2. lister
  1. sister
  2. sr
  1. transistor
  2. twister

reverse dictionary (12)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. mester
  2. myster
  1. beet-master
  2. Mister
  1. master
  2. Herr
  1. goodman
  2. Mr.
  1. Tuan
  2. sirrah
  1. signor
  2. sir

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  • bilby In Italian, mister means the coach of a sporting team, particularly in soccer/football parlance. Nov 23, 2007

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‘mister’ has been looked up 1357 times, added to 11 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 8.