(BrE) (also Mr. AmE, BrE) abbreviation
1 a title that comes before a man's family name, or before his first and family names together:
Mr Brown * Mr John Brown * Mr and Mrs Brown
2 a title used to address a man in some official positions:
Thank you, Mr Chairman. * Mr. President
seealsoMISTER
IDIOMS
Mr Nice Guy (informal) a way of describing a man who is very honest and thinks about the wishes and feelings of other people
Mr Right (informal) the man who would be the right husband for a particular woman:
I'm not getting married in a hurry-I'm waiting for Mr Right to come along.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for Mr is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does Mr appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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