mister

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English

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Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭsʹ-tər, IPA: /ˈmɪstər/, X-SAMPA: /"mIst@r/
• (UK) IPA: [ˈmɪstə(ɹ)], X-SAMPA: ["mIst@(r\)]
• (US) IPA: [ˈmɪstɚ], X-SAMPA: ["mIst@`]

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• Rhymes: -ɪstə(r)
• Homophones: Mr., Mister

Etymology 1

Unaccented variant of master

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. Title conferred on an adult male.

   You may sit here, mister.

   • 1855, George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition, J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358:

     Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters, here's the railing round the ground, and there's the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.

   • 1908, Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story, The McClure Company, page 90:

     There's only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, there's only two.

Coordinate terms

• (title of adult male): master, mistress, Mrs., Miss, Ms., Dr., Doctor

Translations

title of adult male

• Apache:

  Western Apache: hastiin

• Arabic: سيد (ar) (sáyyid) m, استاذ (ar) (ʾustāḏ)
• Armenian: պարոն (hy) (paron) 
• Aromanian: domnu (rup)
• Belarusian: пан (be) (pan) m 
• Bulgarian: господин (bg) (gospodín) m 
• Catalan: senyor (ca)
• Chamicuro: chmes̈hona
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 先生 (cmn) (xiānsheng)

• Czech: pán (cs) m
• Dalmatian: sinar
• Dutch: meneer (nl)
• Esperanto: Sinjoro (eo)
• Filipino: Ginoong
• Finnish: herra (fi)
• French: monsieur (fr) m
• Friulian: missâr, signôr
• German: Herr (de) m
• Greek: κύριος (el) m (kýrios)
• Hindi: श्री (hi) (śrī), जी (hi) (jī), साहिब (hi) (sāhib) m, साहब (hi) (sāhab) m
• Hungarian: úr (hu)
• Icelandic: herra (is) m
• Indonesian: tuan (id)
• Italian: signore (it) m
• Japanese: さん (ja) (san), 様 (ja) (さま, sama), 氏 (ja) (し, shi)

• Korean: -씨 (ko) (-ssi), -님 (ko) (-nim), 미스터 (ko) (miseuteo)
• Latin: dominus (la) m
• Macedonian: господин (mk) (gospodín) m
• Malay:

  Rumi: encik (ms), tuan (ms)

  Jawi: انچيق (ms), توان (ms)

• Navajo: hastiin
• Norwegian: herr (no)
• Occitan: sénher (oc)
• Polish: pan (pl) m
• Portuguese: senhor (pt) m
• Romanian: domn (ro) m
• Russian: господин (ru) (gospodín) m , (used in translations) мистер (ru) (míster) 
• Sardinian: sannori (sc), segnore (sc), segnori (sc), sennore (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: Maighstir m
• Serbo-Croatian: господин (sh) m, gospodin (sh) m
• Slovak: pán (sk) m
• Slovene: gospod (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: kněz m

• Spanish: señor (es) m
• Swedish: herr (sv) c
• Tagalog: Ginoong
• Thai: นาย (th) (naai)
• Ukrainian: пан (uk) (pan) m 
• Urdu: صاحب (ur) (sāhib) m
• Uzbek: janob (uz)

Verb

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (transitive) To address by the title of "mister".

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
2. (now rare, dialectal) A kind, type of.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:

     The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast, / To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd [...].

3. (obsolete) Need (of something).
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VI:

     for of your helpe I had grete mystir: For I drede me sore to passe this foreste.

4. (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.15:

     As for hym sayd kynge Carados, I wylle encountre with kynge bors, and ye wil rescowe me whan myster is [...].

Verb

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; / Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.

Etymology 3

mist +‎ -er.

Noun

mister (plural misters)

1. A device that makes or sprays mist.

   Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.

Derived terms

• demister

Anagrams

• ermits, merits, miters, mitres, remits, smiter, timers

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English.

Noun

mister m (invariable)

1. mister (appellation)
2. (soccer) coach (trainer)

Anagrams

• stremi

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Polish

Noun

mister m

1. Winner of a male beauty pageant.

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Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese mester, from Latin ministerium (“employment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /misˈtɛɾ/
• (Paulista) IPA: /misˈtɛɹ/
• (South Brazil) IPA: /misˈtɛɻ/

Alternative forms

• mester

Adjective

mister m and f (plural mister; comparable)

1. (law) of the utmost importance
2. necessary

Noun

mister m (plural misteres)

1. office, work, employment, occupation, profession
2. position in a profession
3. need; necessity

Synonyms

• (office): ofício, profissão, serviço, trabalho
• (position): cargo, posição
• (need): necessidade

Etymology 2

Noun

mister m (plural misters)

1. Alternative form of míster.

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Swedish

Verb

mister

1. present tense of mista.