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dear sirs

dear sirs is the alternative form of dear Sir.

Meaning of dear Sir

Phrase

dear Sir

  1. (dated) Used as the salutation at the beginning of a formal letter when addressing persons – assumed to be male – of unknown names.
    • Dear Sir, You will recently have received...

Phrase capitalized: dear Sirs

dear Sirs

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of dear sirs.

Questions about dear sirs

What is dear sirs the alternative form of?
Dear sirs is the alternative form of dear Sir.
What part of speech is dear sirs?
Dear sirs is a phrase.

Words near dear sirs in the dictionary

  1. dear Lord
  2. dear me
  3. dear Sir
  4. dear Sir or Madam
  5. dear Sir/Madam
  6. dear sirs
  7. Dear Sirs or Madams
  8. dearborn
  9. Dearborn County
  10. Dearborn Heights
  11. Dearborner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dear sirs (page history and authors); dear Sirs (page history and authors); dear Sir (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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