Definition of "mister" []

• Title conferred on an adult male. (noun)
• A device that makes or sprays mist. (noun)
• Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade. (noun)
• A kind, type of. (noun)
• Need (of something). (noun)

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• "The word mister, as a prefix, or the word esquire, as a suffix, seemed a superfluity."
• "The word mister sounded sharply, yet not unpleasingly, to my ear: it was the first time I had been so designated or so dignified."
• "Princess, Captain Falk's unwarrantable insult to Davie Paine -- it seems incongruous to call him "mister" -- was to play its part later in events that as yet were only gathering way."