Mr. and Mrs.

See also: Mr and Mrs

English

Alternative forms

• Mr. & Mrs.
• Mr and Mrs (UK)
• Mr & Mrs (UK)

Noun

Mr. and Mrs. (plural Messrs. and Mmes.)

1. a title used for a married couple before the surname or before the name of the husband.

   Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

   Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. (dated)

   • 1898 January 22, “Society”, in The Capital, volume VII, number 4, Los Angeles, Calif., page 5, column 2:

     In the evening the reception party and a few other friends were entertained at cards by Mr. and Mrs. Flint. These guests included Messrs. and Mmes. Frank W. King, J. B. Bushnell, J. H. F. Peck, Fred Parke, Frank Burnett, Dr. and Mrs. M. L. Moore, Mrs. Sanders, the Misses Fairchild, Coleman, Messrs. B. E. Green. Luther Green, Barnwell, Drs. Rogers and Bryant. / The members of the Bonnie Brae Club were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Akin at their handsome residence on West Beacon street on the 13th. The prizes at whist were won by Miss Coleman and Mr. H. Jevne.

   • 1947 January 11, “Lads, Lassies Welcome ’47; 4 Orgs Hosts At New Year’s; 500 attend banquet and ball in St. Louis—HASC host to 225 in Kansas City”, in The Billboard, page 66:

     Guests at the St. Louis affair included E. Lawrence Phillips, Ralph Lockett, Eddie Coe, Harvey Wilson, Del Lampkin, Morris Lipsky, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lipsky, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sharkey, Messrs. and Mmes. Mel Vaught, Harold Eutah, John McKee, Cecil Turner, Ray Turner, Jack Price, Earl Bunting, Ted Martin, Orval Williams, Robert L. Heth and Mike J. Dressen, W. M. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. George Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Proper, Tony Silvestri, E. M. Ford, John Fabick, who had 44 in his party for the largest single party of the evening; […]

   • 1959 February 1, “Pains To Receive On Anniversary”, in The San Diego Union; republished in Rodney H. Pain, Beatrix: From Royal Court to Cookstove, Trafford Publishing, 2003, →ISBN:

     Out of town guests attending today’s anniversary event will include Mmes. Wilson Nesbitt, Marjorie Mayne, Doris Weatherstone Smith and Sir Humphery Cotton Minchin, from England; William R. Mesland of Iran; Mr. and Mrs. John Watson of San Francisco; Messrs. and Mmes. Robert Butt, R. D. Roberts, Joseph Perry, Charles E. and E. W. Ballwanz, and Maj. and Mrs. C. E. Collings of Los Angeles, and Mr. and Mrs. George Evans of Hemet.

   • 1987, Bernelda Ost Roberts, compiler, A Genealogy of the Weckwerth Family: From Posen (Prussia) to Minnesota and Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.: B.O. Roberts, →OCLC, page 274:

     Out of town friends and relatives at the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Tomaschek, Chicago; Messrs^[sic] and Mmes. Wm. Domonoske, Fred Domonoske, and Herman Domonoske, of Waterville; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Tesch and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Weckwerth, Granite Falls; Mr. and Mrs. Joe Holtan, Dawson; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Miller and Mrs. G. Lange of Echo; […]

Translations

Title of a married couple

• French: M. et M^me (fr)
• German: Hr. und Fr.
• Japanese: 夫妻 (ja) (fusai), 夫婦 (ja) (fūfu)
• Polish: państwo (pl) n