Borrowed fromSpanish señor .Doublet ofseigneur ,seignior ,senhor ,senior ,senyor ,signore ,sir , and sire .
IPA (key ) : /seɪnˈjɔɹ/ ,/seɪnˈjoʊɹ/ ,/sinˈjɔɹ/ ,/sɛnˈjɔɹ/ Hyphenation:se‧ñor señor (plural señores )
A Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or an older man. noser ,renos ,oners ,Ernos ,Rosen ,Ornes ,snore ,seron ,Ensor ,Norse ,neros ,rosen ,Roens ,Neros ,Rones Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguese senhor , fromLatin senior . ComparePortuguese senhor .
IPA (key ) : /seˈɲoɾ/ [s̺eˈɲoɾ] Rhymes:-oɾ Hyphenation:se‧ñor señor m (plural señores ,feminine señora ,feminine plural señoras )
elder ,senior sir ,mister lord ,master ,liege ( capitalized , Catholicism ) theLord /God señor f (plural señores )
( archaic ) lady ,milady Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González ;Granja, María Álvarez de la ;Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022 ), “señor ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018 ), “señor ”, inCorpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández , editor (2006–2013 ), “señor ”, inDicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language ] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003–2018 ), “señor ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco , editor (2014–2024 ), “señor ”, inTesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega ,→ISSN Unadapted borrowing fromSpanish señor ( “ señor ” ) .Doublet ofsenior ,senyur , and sinyo .
señor
señor ( a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr. ) Synonym: senyur Inherited fromOld Spanish sennor ( “ lord ” ) , fromVulgar Latin *senjor ( “ master, elder, lord, nobleman ” ) , fromLatin seniōrem ( “ elder ” ) , comparative form ofsenex ( “ old ” ) .Doublet ofsénior , borrowed from Latin.
IPA (key ) : /seˈɲoɾ/ [seˈɲoɾ] Rhymes:-oɾ Syllabification:se‧ñor señor m (plural señores ,feminine señora ,feminine plural señoras )
mister ,sir ,lord ( title conferred on a married or older male ) Synonyms: Sr. ,Sr Señor , cierre la puerta.Sir , close the door.gentleman Synonym: caballero master Synonym: amo señor (feminine señora ,masculine plural señores ,feminine plural señoras )
( before a noun ) great big;whopping dar unseñor golpe Give agood big whack free (Can we add anexample for this sense?) “señor ”, inDiccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language ] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1,Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española ], 15 December 2025 “señor ”, inDiccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms ] (in Spanish),Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish:Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española ],2010 “señor ”, inTesoro de los diccionarios históricos de la lengua española [Thesaurus of the Historical Dictionaries of the Spanish Language ],Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish:Real Academia Española ], launched 2021 “señor ”, inDiccionario del español de México , Segunda edición , Academia Mexicana de la Lengua,2019 Manuel Seco ; Olimpia Andrés; Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023), “señor ”, inDiccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish ] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation ]señór (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜈ᜔ᜌᜓᜇ᜔ )
alternative spelling ofsenyor