See also: Appendix:Variations of "mr"
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of Mister.
Pronunciation
- enPR: mĭsʹ-tər, IPA(key): /ˈmɪstəɹ/
- (UK) IPA(key): [ˈmɪstə(ɹ)]
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): [ˈmɪstɚ]
- Rhymes: -ɪstə(ɹ)
- Homophones: Mister, mister
Noun
Mr. (plural Messrs.)
- (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], archived from the original on 26 January 2021: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), Mr, 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.)
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Etymology 2
Abbreviation of March.
Proper noun
Mr.
- (US, Canada) Abbreviation of March (month).
- Synonyms: Mar, Mar.
Anagrams
French
Noun
Mr. m
- (archaic) alternative form of Mr