senhor
Americannoun
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senhors,
plural
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senhores
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of senhor
1785–95; < Portuguese < Vulgar Latin *senior lord; see senior
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The first was with a grave middle-aged senhor, of superior appearance, who checked our hats at the Monumental Club.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Your change, senhor," said the waiter, tossing onto the marble-topped coffee table: some aspirin tablets, a string of trolley-car tickets and a postage stamp.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I'm a slave too, as you well know, senhor."
From Caribbee by Thomas Hoover
Among the pleasant company we have quitted, senhor? whose friendships of a night are celebrated by a brawl on the morrow!
From Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) by Charles James Lever
“Hold fast to it, senhor, you’ll never get up without it,” he said, in tones so earnest that the youth became suddenly alive to the great danger of his position.
From The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
"Hiss-sss-sss" went the fine senhorinas, "sss-sss-sss" went the fierce senhores.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is an armed neutrality, as you senhores would say.
From The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
Yet I wish you all success, senhores, and a safe return.
From The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
But we heard him, senhores; twice before we lost sight of him he spoke out in a queer voice like that of a parrot.
From The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
"That may be of importance, senhores," said Lourenço.
From The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
Will the senhors honour us by becoming the latter?”
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
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