Mr.

See also: mr, Mr, MR, mr., .mr, M.R., and Appendix:Variations of "mr"

English

Alternative forms

• Mr (UK)
• (March): MR

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of Mister.

Pronunciation

• enPR: mĭsʹ-tər, IPA^(key): /ˈmɪstəɹ/
• (UK) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪstə(ɹ)]
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪstɚ]
• (US)

  (file)

• (UK)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪstə(r)
• Homophones: Mister, mister

Noun

Mr. (plural Messrs.)

1. (US, Canada) Abbreviation of mister. A title used before the surname in theory, though not generally in practice, above some undefined social level, too old to be addressed as “Master”, not a knight or of some higher rank, and, in Britain though not in the United States, not entitled to be addressed as “Dr.”.

   Mr. John Doe

   Mr. Doe

Translations

abbreviation of mister

• Amharic: አቶ (ʾäto)
• Arabic: سَيِّد‎ m (sayyid)
• Armenian: պ-ն (p-n), պրն. (prn.)
• Belarusian: пан m (pan)
• Bulgarian: г-н (g-n)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 先生 (zh) (xiānsheng)

• Czech: p. (cs)
• Danish: Hr
• Dutch: dhr.
• Esperanto: S-ro
• Estonian: Hr
• Finnish: hra (fi)
• French: M. (fr), M^r
• Georgian: ბ-ნი (b-ni)
• German: Hr. (de)
• Greek: κ. m (k.)
• Hebrew: מר‎ (he), ׳הא‎
• Hindi: जी (hi) (jī), श्री (hi) (śrī), साहिब (hi) m (sāhib), साहब (hi) (sāhab)
• Hungarian: úr (hu)
• Icelandic: hr. (is)
• Ido: Sro
• Igbo: Maazi
• Indonesian: Tn.
• Interlingua: Sr.
• Irish: an tUas.
• Italian: Sig
• Japanese: さん (ja) (san), 様 (ja) (さま, sama), 氏 (ja) (し, shi)
• Korean: -씨 (ko) (ssi), -님 (ko) (nim), 미스터 (miseuteo)

• Kurdish: Birêz
• Latin: dominus (la)
• Latvian: kgs
• Lithuanian: Ponas
• Macedonian: Г-дин (G-din)
• Malay: Encik, Tuan
• Maltese: Sur
• Mongolian: ноён (mn) (nojon)
• Ngazidja Comorian: Mshe class 1
• Norwegian: herr
• Polish: p. (pl)
• Portuguese: Sr (pt), D (pt)
• Romanian: Dl.
• Russian: г-н (ru) (g-n)
• Scottish Gaelic: Mgr (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian: g., gosp.
• Slovak: pán m
• Slovene: gospod (sl) m
• Spanish: Sr
• Swahili: Bw.
• Swedish: Hr
• Tagalog: G
• Thai: คุณ (th) (kun)
• Ukrainian: пан m (pan)
• Urdu: صاحب‎ m (sāhib)
• Uzbek: Janob
• Vietnamese: ông (vi)
• Welsh: Mr
• Yiddish: הער‎ (her)

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of March.

Proper noun

Mr.

1. (US, Canada) Abbreviation of March (month).

Anagrams

• RM, rm, rm.