mister

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈmɪstə/|[ˈmɪstə]    美 /ˈmɪstəɹ/|[ˈmɪstɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Alternative spelling of Mister, especially when used as a form of address without a name.
    — You may sit here, mister.
  2. Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade. obsolete
  3. A device that makes or sprays mist.
    — Odessa D. uses a mister Sunday to fight the 106-degree heat at a NASCAR race in Fontana, California.
  4. A man.
    — There are too many misters and not enough sisters up in this club tonight, for my taste.
  5. A kind, type of. archaic,dialectal
    — The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast, To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd[…].
  6. Need (of something). obsolete
    — He is richt gude, Ane man of wealth and nobill blude, Bot hes mair mister of ane Hude.
  7. Necessity; the necessary time. obsolete
    — That the portis be mendytt and lokit and reformit as mister is.
动词 v.
  1. To address by the title of "mister". ambitransitive
    — 1837-39, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist “Hush! hush! Mr. Sikes,” said the Jew, trembling; “don’t speak so loud!” “None of your mistering,” replied the ruffian; “you always mean mischief when you come that. You know my name: out with it! I shan’t disgrace it when the time comes.”
  2. To be necessary; to matter. impersonal,obsolete
    — As for my name, it mistreth not to tell; Call me the Squyre of Dames that me beseemeth well.

词形变化

misters plural misters present,singular,third-person mistering participle,present mistered participle,past mistered past misters plural misters present,singular,third-person mistering participle,present mistered participle,past mistered past misters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
hey mister misteress misters before sisters sisters before misters sister from another mister
相关词
Mister Man

词源

词源 1
Unaccented variant of master, attested since the 15th century.
词源 2
From Middle English mister, myster, from Anglo-Norman mester, meister (et al.), from Latin misterium, a medieval conflation of Latin ministerium (“ministry”) with Latin mysterium (“mystery”). Doublet of métier.
词源 3
mist + -er
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