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monsieur

/məˈsjʊə(ɹ)/

monsieur noun: a man, especially a French gentleman.

Noun (1)

monsieur (plural monsieurs or messieurs)

  1. (dated) A man, especially a French gentleman.
    • Pass round the decanters; glad to see ye; fill up, monsieurs!1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Cabin”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 589

Noun (2) capitalized: Monsieur

Monsieur (plural Monsieurs or Messieurs)

  1. Mister, especially in a French context.
    • It will appear by the Minutes sent You to June i6th last, and by those which accompany this Letter, that Messieurs Smith and Schlatter have done their Part; [...]1880, Horace Wemyss Smith, Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith, D. D.: First Provost of the College and Academy of Philadelphia. First President of Washington College, Maryland. With...
    • As the Monsieurs suddenly showed up and confronted the situation with wicked grins on their faces, the gang members decided to sullenly disperse and slink away. It was like a scene from an old West showdown.2011, Rick Johnson, That's My Teenage Son: How Moms Can Influence Their Boys to Become Good Men, Revell, →ISBN, page 204
    Synonyms:
    M.

monsieur meaning in Bengali

monsieur in Bengali

মহোদয়, কর্তা, মহাশয়, হুজুর, ভদ্রলোক

Examples of monsieur in a sentence

  • Ooh la la, monsieur, you do have big muscles after all.
  • Far better to go on to monsieur et madame, which applies another diaphanous layer of style.
  • Monsieur holds the door open for me as we step inside his bureau.

All 19 example sentences with monsieur

Synonyms of monsieur

Forms of monsieur

pluralmonsieurs
pluralmessieurs
pluralMonsieurs
pluralMessieurs

Origin of monsieur

From French monsieur. Doublet of monseigneur and monsignor.

Borrowed from French Monsieur.

Phrases with monsieur

Questions about monsieur

What does monsieur mean?
Monsieur means a man, especially a French gentleman.
What is monsieur in Bengali?
Monsieur in Bengali is মহোদয়, কর্তা, মহাশয়. See Monsieur meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is monsieur?
Monsieur is a noun.
How do you pronounce monsieur?
Monsieur is pronounced /məˈsjʊə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of monsieur?
The plural of monsieur is monsieurs.

Words near monsieur in the dictionary

  1. Monsel's salt
  2. Monsel's solution
  3. Monsen
  4. Monsens
  5. Monsey
  6. monsieur
  7. Monsieur de Paris
  8. monsieurs
  9. monsignor
  10. monsignorhood
  11. monsignori

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: monsieur (page history and authors); Monsieur (page history and authors); Monsieur (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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