mister
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- enPR: mĭsʹ-tər, IPA: /ˈmɪstər/, SAMPA: /"mIst@r/
- (UK) IPA: [ˈmɪstə(ɹ)], SAMPA: ["mIst@(r\)]
- (US) IPA: [ˈmɪstɚ], SAMPA: ["mIst@`]
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪstə(r)
- Homophones: Mr., Mister
[edit] Etymology 1
Unaccented variant of master
[edit] Noun
mister (plural misters)
- 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.
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[edit] Translations
title of adult male
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[edit] Etymology 2
From Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”).[1]
[edit] Noun
mister (plural misters)
- (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
- (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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ix:
- (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.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VI:
- (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 [...].
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book I.15:
[edit] Verb
mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)
- (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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:
[edit] Etymology 3
[edit] Noun
mister (plural misters)
- 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.
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[edit] References
- ^ David Wallace, Chaucerian polity: absolutist lineages and associational forms in England and Italy, Stanford University Press, 1997
[edit] Anagrams
[edit] Italian
[edit] Etymology
Borrowing from English.
[edit] Noun
mister m. inv.
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[edit] Polish
[edit] Noun
mister m.
- Winner of a male beauty pageant.
[edit] Portuguese
[edit] Etymology
Probably from Latin ministerium.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /mjsˈtɛɾ/
[edit] Adjective
mister m. and f. (plural misters; comparable)
- (law) of the utmost importance
- necessary
[edit] Noun
mister m. (plural misteres)
- office, position: in a profession; work, employment, occupation, profession
- need
[edit] Swedish
[edit] Verb
mister
- present tense of mista.
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