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Herr

American  
[her, hair] / hɛr, hɛər /

noun

Herren plural
  1. the conventional German title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or in direct address to sir.


Herr British  
/ hɛr /

noun

  1. a German man: used before a name as a title equivalent to Mr

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of Herr

From German

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“Earnings and fundamentals are still driving this market,” said Jack Herr, senior investment analyst at GuideStone Funds.

From Barron's May 1, 2026

To that end, he launched Snowcap with two co-founders, Chief Science Officer Anna Herr, a physicist, and Chief Technical Officer Quentin Herr, an electrical engineer, the inventors of the company’s superconducting technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 4, 2026

Herr Hartig, who wasn't Jewish, appears to have offered the family a solution to the impending confiscation of their assets by the Nazis.

From BBC Oct. 18, 2025

“I could sense the agape right off the page,” said Herr, using the Greek term for the selfless love preached by Jesus, to explain why he wanted in.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2025

“And how will Herr Thiessen know where the circus is headed?”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

For example, Herren noted the long-dominant mosquito species in Kenya fell off in the mid-2000s, around the same time that insecticide-treated nets were widely distributed.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2023

Jeremy Herren, who studies malaria at the Nairobi-based International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, said there is evidence that climate change is already impacting where mosquito populations choose to live.

From Seattle Times Jul. 20, 2023

Allison Herren Lee, a former commissioner and interim chair at the Securities and Exchange Commission, has worked as an enforcement lawyer and inside a mismanaged business.

From New York Times Jan. 14, 2023

"The component shortages that everyone's dealing with right now have led to price increases, and those price increases are going to be with us for quite some time," Herren told Reuters in an interview.

From Reuters Sep. 15, 2021

London, and the fourth to Herren Klopstock & Billreuth, bankers, Buda-Pesth.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

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