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senyor

senyor noun: a Catalan-speaking gentleman.

Noun

senyor (plural senyors)

  1. A Catalan-speaking gentleman.
    • Their relationship was much like that of the patron-client relationships of the senyors and tenants of the past except that, since these senyors had no children, the Deianenc family would be the heirs to the estate they worked.1996, Jacqueline Waldren, “The Realities of Paradise”, in Insiders and Outsiders: Paradise and Reality in Mallorca (New Directions in Anthropology; 3), New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Berghahn...
    • She did not mind the servants gossiping behind the senyors’ backs but did not encourage them.2006, Mercè Rodoreda, translated by Josep Miquel Sobrer, “The Servants in Summer”, in A Broken Mirror, London: Daunt Books, →ISBN, part 1, page 104

Forms of senyor

pluralsenyors

Origin of senyor

From Catalan senyor. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, signore, sir, and sire.

Questions about senyor

What does senyor mean?
Senyor means a Catalan-speaking gentleman.
What part of speech is senyor?
Senyor is a noun.
What is the plural of senyor?
The plural of senyor is senyors.

Words near senyor in the dictionary

  1. Senussis
  2. Senussism
  3. senvies
  4. senvy
  5. Senyera
  6. senyor
  7. senyors
  8. senza sordini
  9. senza sordino
  10. senzala
  11. senzalas

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