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
Example Sentences
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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
"As you say, senhor, a man who never has had to work."
From The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
"It is nothing, senhor," coolly answered the bowman—though his glance at the Peruvians said plainly that it would have been something but for the swift punishment by the Americans.
From The Pathless Trail by Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
But will not the senhor be too weak if we leave to-morrow?”
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
"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
"Something of this Raposa and of those red-streaked people has come to my ears, senhores, but only as rumors," he said, slowly.
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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