FORM OF ADDRESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does form of address mean? 

• FORM OF ADDRESS (noun)
  The noun FORM OF ADDRESS has 1 sense:

1. an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. 'Mr.' or 'General'

  Familiarity information: FORM OF ADDRESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORM OF ADDRESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. 'Mr.' or 'General'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

form of address; title; title of respect

Context example:

the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title

Hypernyms ("form of address" is a kind of...):

appellation; appellative; denomination; designation (identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "form of address"):

Mrs; Mrs. (a form of address for a married woman)

Father; Padre ('Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); 'Padre' is frequently used in the military)

Very Reverend (a title of respect for various ecclesiastical officials (as cathedral deans and canons and others))

Signorina (an Italian title or form of address for an unmarried woman)

Signora (an Italian title or form of address for a married woman)

Senorita (a Spanish title or form of address used to or of an unmarried girl or woman; similar to the English 'Miss')

Senora (a Spanish title or form of address for a married woman; similar to the English 'Mrs' or 'madam')

Senor (a Spanish title or form of address for a man; similar to the English 'Mr' or 'sir')

Reverend (a title of respect for a clergyman)

Rabbi (a Hebrew title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher)

Ms; Ms. (a form of address for a woman)

Aga; Agha (title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey))

Mister; Mr; Mr. (a form of address for a man)

Miss (a form of address for an unmarried woman)

Herr (a German courtesy title or form of address for a man)

Hakham (a Hebrew title of respect for a wise and highly educated man)

Fraulein (a German courtesy title or form of address for an unmarried woman)

Frau (a German courtesy title or form of address for an adult woman)

Dona (a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for a woman)

Don (a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename)

Defender of the Faith (a title that Leo X bestowed on Henry VIII and later withdrew; parliament restored the title and it has been used by English sovereigns ever since)

 Context examples 

He then directed our attention to the wall, and was beginning, I assure you, gentlemen, when I ventured to object to that ceremonious form of address, and to beg that he would speak to us in the old way.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)