Mr.

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mr"

English

Alternative forms

• Mr (UK)
• M^r
• (March): MR

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of Mister.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (UK):

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• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈmɪstɚ]

  • Audio (US):

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

Noun

Mr. (plural Messrs.)

1. (Canada, US, Philippines, formerly or traditionally UK) Abbreviation of Mister.

   Mr. John Doe

   Mr. Doe

   • 2007 January 7, Deirdre Mcnamer, “They Came From Montana”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     But only if one forgets that Mr. Tester is 50 years old, he’s seasoned in state politics, he ran a canny, gloves-off campaign, and he’s the kind of charismatic, hard-to-peg, Western neopopulist (like his friend, Gov. Brian Schweitzer of Montana) who might be, even now, redefining in certain far-reaching ways what it means to be a Democrat.

Usage notes

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.”.

In the UK, now commonly written Mr, without the full stop.

Translations

abbreviation of mister

• Amharic: አቶ (ʾäto)
• Arabic: سَيِّد m (sayyid)
• Armenian: պ-ն (p-n), պրն. (prn.), պարոն (hy) (paron)
• Belarusian: пан m (pan), спада́р (be) m (spadár), мі́стар m (místar) (Anglophone context)
• Bulgarian: г-н (g-n), господи́н (bg) m (gospodín)
• Carpathian Rusyn: пан m (pan)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 先生 (sin¹ saang¹)

  Mandarin: 先生 (zh) (xiānsheng)

• Czech: p. (cs), pan (cs) m
• Danish: hr. (da)
• Dutch: dhr. (nl)
• Esperanto: S-ro (eo)
• Estonian: Hr
• Finnish: hra (fi)
• French: M. (fr), M^r, Monsieur (fr) m, monsieur (fr) m
• Georgian: ბ-ნი (b-ni), ბატონი (baṭoni)
• German: Hr. (de), Herr (de) m
• Greek: κ. m (k.)
• Hebrew: מַר (he) m (mar), ׳הא m
• 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:

  Northern Kurdish: Birêz

• Latin: dominus (la)
• Latvian: kgs
• Lithuanian: ponas m
• Macedonian: Г-дин (G-din), господин m (gospodin)
• Malay: Encik, Tuan
• Maltese: Sur
• Maori: Mita
• Marathi: श्री m (śrī)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: ноён (mn) (nojon)

• Ngazidja Comorian: Mshe class 1
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: herr m

• Pannonian Rusyn: пан m (pan)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: آقایِ (fa) (âġâ-ye), آغایِ (fa) (âġâ-ye)

• Polish: p. (pl), pan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Sr. (pt), D.
• Romanian: Dl.
• Russian: г-н (ru) (g-n), господи́н (ru) m (gospodín), ми́стер (ru) m (místɛr) (Anglophone context)
• Scottish Gaelic: Mgr (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: г. m, госп. m, госпо̀дин m

  Roman: g. m, gosp. m, gospòdin (sh) m

• Slovak: pán (sk) m
• Slovene: gospod (sl) m
• Spanish: Sr (es)
• Swahili: Bw.
• Swedish: Hr
• Tagalog: G
• Thai: คุณ (th) (kun)
• Turkish: bay (tr), bey (tr)
• Ukrainian: пан (uk) m (pan), мі́стер m (míster) (Anglophone context)
• Urdu: صاحِب m (sāhib)
• Uzbek: Janob
• Vietnamese: ông (vi)
• Welsh: Mr
• Yiddish: ה׳ (h.)

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of March.

Proper noun

Mr.

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

   Synonyms: Mar, Mar.

Anagrams

• R&M, rm., RM, rm

French

Noun

M^r. m

1. (archaic) Alternative form of Mr