mister
To address by the title of "mister"To address by the title of "mister".
» Hey mister, you forgot your coat!
Гей, пане, ви забули своє пальто! — deniko
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2 senses(ambitransitive)To address by the title of "mister".
(impersonal, obsolete)To be necessary; to matter.
Examples
37 sentencesHey mister, you forgot your coat!
Гей, пане, ви забули своє пальто! — deniko
Less of the heroics please, mister.
Hey, mister, your fly is down.
I respect the mister's point of view.
Hey, mister! I think you dropped this.
Origin
Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century. From Middle English misterUnaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century.
From Middle English mister, myster, from Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”). Doublet of métier.
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Forms
misters, mistering, mistered, misteredLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.