MONSIEUR (messieurs)

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Irregular inflected form: messieurs   

• MONSIEUR (noun)
  The noun MONSIEUR has 1 sense:

1. used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English 'Mr'

  Familiarity information: MONSIEUR used as a noun is very rare.

• MONSIEUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used as a French courtesy title; equivalent to English 'Mr'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Monsieur" is a kind of...):

adult male; man (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman))

 Context examples 

If I shall not be Monsieur de Trop, I will so gladly see them all.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Monsieur, John has just been to say that your agent has called and wishes to see you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yet it was Monsieur Rudin and not his dog who looked plumper for a week to come.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The credit of the execution is due to Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble, who spent some days in doing the moulding.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I still retain an almost verbatim report of the interview in which he demonstrated the true facts of the case to Monsieur Dubuque of the Paris police, and Fritz von Waldbaum, the well-known specialist of Dantzig, both of whom had wasted their energies upon what proved to be side-issues.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, messieurs, it chanced that the Sieur de Crespigny, having said this and that, for the laughter of the varlets, cried out at last about the glove that the knight wore in his coif, asking if it was the custom in England for a man to wear a great archer's glove in his cap. Pardieu!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Outside ourselves there are four, I think, who have had access to it—the Prince, of course; Mr Pitt; Monsieur Otto, the French Ambassador; and Lord Hawkesbury.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If monsieur would give himself the pain of sitting down, a flash of time should present her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Monsieur a parle de vous: il m'a demande le nom de ma gouvernante, et si elle n'etait pas une petite personne, assez mince et un peu pale.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He could not but take it, and yet whilst he was stalking off he threw a proud glance over his shoulder at the butcher, and he said, “Monsieur, I have a dog!”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)