Mister | |
1. n. ngd, General title or respect of an adult male. | |
This is Mister Smith, assistant to the President. | |
2. n. ngd, Official title of a military man, usually anyone below rank of captain. | |
3. n. ngd, Official form of address of a president of a nation. | |
Mister President | |
4. n. ngd, Formal address to any official of an organization. | |
Mister Secretary | |
Mister Treasurer | |
Mister Attorney | |
Mister Justice | |
5. n. ngd, A warrant officer or cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point. | |
6. n. ngd, An informal title used before a nickname or other moniker. | |
Mister Suave | |
Mister Baseball | |
7. n. A title conferred on an adult male, usually when the name is unknown. Also used as a term of address, often by a parent to a young child. | |
You may sit here, mister. | |
8. v. To address by the title of "mister". | |
9. n. (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade. | |
10. n. (now rare, dialectal) A kind, type of. | |
11. n. (obsolete) Need (of something). | |
12. n. (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time. | |
13. v. (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter. | |
14. n. 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. | |