Definizione monolingua

mister

mister (third-person singular simple present misters, present participle mistering, simple past and past participle mistered)

1. (obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vii:

     As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; / Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.

mister (plural misters)

1. Title conferred on an adult male.

   You may sit here, mister.

   • 1855, George Musalas Colvocoresses, Four Years in the Government Exploring Expedition, J. M. Fairchild & co., page 358:

     Fine day to see sights, gentlemen. Well, misters, heres the railing round the ground, and theres the paling round the tomb, eight feet deep, six feet long, and three feet wide.

   • 1908, Jack Brand, By Wild Waves Tossed: An Ocean Love Story, The McClure Company, page 90:

     Theres only three misters aboard this ship, or, rather, theres only two.

mister m. and f. (plural misters; comparable)

1. (law) of the utmost importance
2. necessary

Definizione dizionario mister

	signore
	title of adult male

padrone

sig.

signor

Altri significati:

(obsolete, impersonal) To be necessary; to matter.

(obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.

(obsolete) Need (of something).

(now rare, dialectal) A kind, type of.

(obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.

Title conferred on an adult male.

A title of respect used when addressing a man, sometimes with a surname added.

A device that makes or sprays mist.