noun. Used as an honorific before the given name or the full name of baronets and knights.

noun. Used as a form of polite address for a man.

noun. Used as a salutation in a letter.

To address as “sir.”

To use the word sir.

noun. A master; lord; sovereign.

noun. A person of rank or importance; a personage; a gentleman.

noun. Master; mister: a respectful and formal title of address, used formerly to men of superior rank, position, or age, and now to men of equal rank, or without regard to rank, as a mere term of address, without etymological significance.

noun. Specifically— A title of honor prefixed to the Christian names of knights and baronets, and formerly applied also to those of higher rank, as the king; it was also prefixed occasionally to the title of rank itself: as, Sir King; Sir Knight; Sir Herald.

noun. (b ) Formerly, a title of a bachelor of arts; hence, a title given to a clergyman; also, a clergyman.

noun. A Persian measure of weight, equal to 16 miskals or ounces troy.

noun. A man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire.

noun. A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.

noun. An English rendering of the LAtin Dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy.

noun. A respectful title, used in addressing a man, without being prefixed to his name; -- used especially in speaking to elders or superiors; sometimes, also, used in the way of emphatic formality.

noun. See under Reverence, n.

noun. A man of a higher rank or position.

noun. An address to a military superior of either sex.

noun. An address to any male, especially if his name or proper address is unknown.

verb. to address somebody using sir

noun. term of address for a man

noun. a title used before the name of knight or baronet

""He read, sir," rejoined Pott, laying his hand on Mr. Pickwick's knee and looking round with a smile of intellectual superiority, "he read for metaphysics under the letter _M_, and for China under the letter _C_, and _combined his information_, _sir_.""

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senate  senex  senior  

siree  sirrah  sirree  

adult male  male aristocrat  man  

Burr  Fleur  Fur  Kerr  Monsieur  

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