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Mr.

 (mĭs′tər)
n. pl. Messrs. (mĕs′ərz)
1. Mister. Used as a courtesy title before the surname or full name of a man. See Usage Note at Ms..
2. Used in informal titles for a man to indicate the epitomizing of an attribute or activity: Mr. Suave; Mr. Baseball.
[Middle English, abbreviation of maister, master; see master.]
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Noun1.mr. - a form of address for a manMr. - a form of address for a man    
Mister, Mr
form of address, title of respect, title - an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. `Mr.' or `General'; "the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title"
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→ الْسَّيِد pan hr. Herr Κος Sr. herra M. gospodin signor 男性の名字の前に付ける敬称 ...씨 Dhr herr Pan Sr. господин herr นาย Bay Ông 先生
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That punctual servant of all work, the sun, had just risen, and begun to strike a light on the morning of the thirteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, when Mr. Samuel Pickwick burst like another sun from his slumbers, threw open his chamber window, and looked out upon the world beneath.
Now, then, fust cab!' And the first cab having been fetched from the public-house, where he had been smoking his first pipe, Mr. Pickwick and his portmanteau were thrown into the vehicle.
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Mr. Stryver having made up his mind to that magnanimous bestowal of good fortune on the Doctor's daughter, resolved to make her happiness known to her before he left town for the Long Vacation.
Accordingly, Mr. Stryver inaugurated the Long Vacation with a formal proposal to take Miss Manette to Vauxhall Gardens; that failing, to Ranelagh; that unaccountably failing too, it behoved him to present himself in Soho, and there declare his noble mind.
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Kenge and Carboy are out of town, and the articled clerk has taken out a shooting license and gone down to his father's, and Mr. Guppy's two fellow-stipendiaries are away on leave.
Mr. Guppy suspects everybody who enters on the occupation of a stool in Kenge and Carboy's office of entertaining, as a matter of course, sinister designs upon him.
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Mr. Fentolin, having succeeded in getting rid of his niece and his somewhat embarrassing guest for at least two hours, was seated in his study, planning out a somewhat strenuous morning, when his privacy was invaded by Doctor Sarson.
Mr. Fentolin lost no time in paying this suggested visit.
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With Mr. Grewgious, when the clock struck ten in the morning, came Mr.
'Why really,' said Mr. Crisparkle, 'I am in great perplexity.
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Mr. Sabin sat up in bed and tore open the envelope.
Mr. Sabin made his toilet with something of the same deliberation which characterised all his movements.
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