señor
Americannoun
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señors,
plural
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señores
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of señor
1615–25; < Spanish < Vulgar Latin *senior. See senior
Example Sentences
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“I am sorry, señor, Did you not ask me for ‘Pure toquilla, right up to the brim’?”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022
From the club that gave you Goodbye Mr Clough ... adiós señor Bielsa.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 5, 2022
That, however, was not what the great señor was after.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 25, 2019
“I ask myself, is it possible that this señor thinks we have papers? He knows we don’t speak English,” Ms. Morales said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
Didn’t the señor know that salt water would purify the book and banish disease?
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
“Señoras y señores, put your hands together for the Co-Co’s!”
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
There, señores," he said, "stands the castle of the Conde.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
Ah, señores," he beamed, "I haf laughed thees day!
From Bring Me His Ears by Clarence E. Mulford
And when the black-eyed Rosita came tripping out, with the flush of sleep still on her, Bio all but forgot the yanqui señores and their boat which waited in Mangrove Creek.
From The Coast of Adventure by Harold Bindloss
They cannot get out of the island, señores," said he, "as no steamer leaves to-day, and they must understand by this that they cannot escape us.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
“Of course, excellent señors, the Spaniards will always conquer their foes, whenever the latter dare stay to encounter their prowess,” was the answer.
From Ben Burton Born and Bred at Sea by Archibald Webb
We shall completely spoil their game, you know, señors, and where there is so much money to be made out of it they would never forgive us.”
From The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by W. Christian Symons
It was Paz and Luz, the mules the señors were riding!
From The Mystery of The Barranca by Herman Whitaker
Come, señors, your swords, if you please, for I have little time to waste.
From The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by John Williamson
"May I take it, señors, that you are satisfied?"
From Bandit Love by Juanita Savage
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