misters

Noun (1)

mister (plural misters)

1. Alternative spelling of Mister, especially when used as a form of address without a name.
   • You may sit here, mister.
2. A man.
   • There are too many misters and not enough sisters up in this club tonight, for my taste.

Noun (2)

mister (plural misters)

1. (obsolete) Someone's business or function; an occupation, employment, trade.
2. (archaic, dialectal) A kind, type of.
   • The Redcrosse knight toward him crossed fast,
     To weet, what mister wight was so dismayd[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
3. (obsolete) Need (of something).
   • He is richt gude, Ane man of wealth and nobill blude, Bot hes mair mister of ane Hude.1603, Ane verie excellent and delectabill treatise intitulit Philotus
4. (obsolete) Necessity; the necessary time.
   • That the portis be mendytt and lokit and reformit as mister is.1543, John Stuart, Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen

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