Usually means: Title for addressing adult men.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. mister: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mister: Merriam-Webster
  3. Mister, mister, mister: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Mister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mister: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Mister: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mister, mister: Wordnik
  8. Mister, mister: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mister: Wiktionary
  10. mister: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Mister: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mister: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mister, mister: Dictionary.com
  14. mister: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mister: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mister (Mr), Mister (disambiguation), Mister (film), Mister (song), Mister, The Mister: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mister: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mister: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mister: Rhymezone
  20. mister: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mister: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mister: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mister: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Mister: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Mister: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mister: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Mister: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MISTER: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mister: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. MISTER, mister: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mistering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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.
noun:  A man.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To address by the title of "mister". [from 18th c.]
noun:  (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
noun:  (now rare, dialectal) A kind, type of.
noun:  (obsolete) Need (of something).
noun:  (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
verb:  (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
noun:  A device that makes or sprays mist.
noun:  A general title of respect for an adult male.
noun:  With a surname.
noun:  With a full name.
noun:  (regional or dated subservient) With a first name only.
noun:  An official form of address to a male president of a nation.
noun:  A formal address to any male official of an organization.
noun:  An official title of a military man, usually anyone below rank of captain.
noun:  A male warrant officer or cadet in the United States Military Academy at West Point.
noun:  An informal title that is used to create a nickname, placeholder name, or other moniker for a male.
noun:  (colloquial, sometimes hostile) Used by itself as a familiar term of address to a man whose name is unknown, or sometimes even if the name is known.

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