Mr.

"Mister" and "Mr" redirect here. For other uses, see Mister (disambiguation) and MR (disambiguation).

Mister, usually written in its contracted form Mr. or Mr,[1] is a commonly used English honorific for men without a higher honorific, or professional title, or any of various designations of office.[1] The title Mr derived from earlier forms of master, as the equivalent female titles Mrs, Miss, and Ms all derived from earlier forms of mistress. Master is sometimes still used as an honorific for boys and young men.

The modern plural form is Misters[citation needed], although its usual formal abbreviation Messrs(.)[note 1] derives from use of the French title messieurs in the 18th century.[2][5] Messieurs is the plural of monsieur (originally mon sieur, "my lord"), formed by declining both of its constituent parts separately.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Mr". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c "Messrs.". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  3. ^ Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. "Messrs." Merriam-Webster (Springfield, 2015.
  4. ^ Sengupta, Sailesh. Business and Managerial Communication, p. 278 (PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd., 2011).
  5. ^ a b "messieurs". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)


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