'SIR' definitions:
Definition of 'sir'
From: WordNet
noun
Term of address for a man
noun
A title used before the name of knight or baronet
Definition of 'Sir'
From: GCIDE
- Sir \Sir\, n. [OE. sire, F. sire, contr. from the nominative L. senior an elder, elderly person, compar. of senex,senis, an aged person; akin to Gr. ??? old, Skr. sana, Goth. sineigs old, sinista eldest, Ir. & Gael. sean old, W. hen. Cf. Seignior, Senate, Seneschal, Senior, Senor, Signor, Sire, Sirrah.]
- 1. A man of social authority and dignity; a lord; a master; a gentleman; -- in this sense usually spelled sire. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He was crowned lord and sire. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
- In the election of a sir so rare. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet. [1913 Webster]
- Sir Horace Vere, his brother, was the principal in the active part. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An English rendering of the LAtin Dominus, the academical title of a bachelor of arts; -- formerly colloquially, and sometimes contemptuously, applied to the clergy. --Nares. [1913 Webster]
- Instead of a faithful and painful teacher, they hire a Sir John, which hath better skill in playing at tables, or in keeping of a garden, than in God's word. --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A respectful title, used in addressing a man, without being prefixed to his name; -- used especially in speaking to elders or superiors; sometimes, also, used in the way of emphatic formality. "What's that to you, sir?" --Sheridan. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Anciently, this title, was often used when a person was addressed as a man holding a certain office, or following a certain business. "Sir man of law." "Sir parish priest." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Sir reverance. See under Reverence, n. [1913 Webster]
Acronyms for 'SIR'
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Words containing 'SIR'
- Sir reverance,
- Sir reverence,
- sir barton,
- sir galahad,
- sir gawain,
- sir geraint,
- sir lancelot,
- sir thomas more,
- Sir John Oldcastle,
- sir alan hodgkin,
- sir alec guinness,
- sir alexander fleming,
- sir alexander korda,
- sir alexander mackenzie,
- sir alfred hitchcock,
- sir angus wilson,
- sir anthony hopkins,
- sir anthony vandyke,
- sir arthur sullivan,
- sir bernard lovell,
- sir bernard williams,
- sir charles wheatstone,
- sir christopher wren,
- sir david bruce,
- sir david low,
- sir edmund hillary,
- sir edward elgar,
- sir edwin lutyens,
- sir francis bacon,
- sir francis drake,
- sir francis galton,
- sir frank whittle,
- sir fred hoyle,
- sir frederick ashton,
- sir geoffrey wilkinson,
- sir henry bessemer,
- sir henry morgan,
- sir henry percy,
- sir henry wood,
- sir humphrey davy,
- sir humphrey gilbert,
- sir isaac newton,
- sir isaac pitman,
- sir jack hobbs,
- sir jacob epstein,
- sir james dewar,
- sir james murray,
- sir james paget,
- sir john cockcroft,
- sir john falstaff,
- sir john gielgud,
- sir john hawkins,
- sir john hawkyns,
- sir john herschel,
- sir john ross,
- sir john suckling,
- sir john tenniel,
- sir john vanbrigh,
- sir joseph banks,
- sir joseph paxton,
- sir joshua reynolds,
- sir leonard hutton,
- sir leonard woolley,
- sir leslie stephen,
- sir martin frobisher,
- sir matthew flinders,
- sir mortimer wheeler,
- sir oliver lodge,
- sir patrick manson,
- sir peter ustinov,
- sir philip sidney,
- sir rabindranath tagore,
- sir rex harrison,
- sir richard burton,
- sir richard owen,
- sir richrd steele,
- sir robert peel,
- sir robert robinson,
- sir robert walpole,
- sir ronald ross,
- sir sarvepalli radhakrishnan,
- sir seretse khama,
- sir thomas gresham,
- sir thomas lawrence,
- sir thomas malory,
- sir thomas raffles,
- sir thomas wyat,
- sir thomas wyatt,
- sir tim rice,
- sir tom stoppard,
- sir walter ralegh,
- sir walter raleigh,
- sir walter scott,
- sir william chambers,
- sir william crookes,
- sir william gilbert,
- sir william herschel,
- sir william huggins,
- sir william wallace,
- sir william walton,
- sir yehudi menuhin,
- sir alexander robertus todd,
- sir anthony philip hopkins,
- sir arthur conan doyle,
- sir arthur john evans,
- sir arthur stanley eddington,
- sir arthur travers harris,
- sir bernard law montgomery,
- sir charles leonard woolley,
- sir charles scott sherrington,
- sir charles spencer chaplin,
- sir charles william siemens,
- sir clive marles sinclair,
- sir edmund percival hillary,
- sir edward victor appleton,
- sir edward william elgar,
- sir edwin landseer luytens,
- sir ernst boris chain,
- sir frederick gowland hopkins,
- sir frederick grant banting,
- sir frederick handley page,
- sir frederick william herschel,
- sir george otto trevelyan,
- sir george paget thomson,
- sir hans adolf krebs,
- sir harold george nicolson,
- sir harold walter kroto,
- sir harry maclennan lauder,
- sir henry joseph wood,
- sir henry maxmilian beerbohm,
- sir henry morton stanley,
- sir henry rider haggard,
- sir herbert beerbohm tree,
- sir hiram stevens maxim,
- sir howard walter florey,
- sir james augustus murray,
- sir james clark ross,
- sir james george frazer,
- sir james matthew barrie,
- sir james paul mccartney,
- sir james young simpson,
- sir john carew eccles,
- sir john cowdery kendrew,
- sir john douglas cockcroft,
- sir john everett millais,
- sir joseph john thomson,
- sir karl raimund popper,
- sir laurence kerr olivier,
- sir noel pierce coward,
- sir oliver joseph lodge,
- sir paul gavrilovich vinogradoff,
- sir peter brian medawar,
- sir peter paul rubens,
- sir ralph david richardson,
- sir richard francis burton,
- sir roger gilbert bannister,
- sir stephen harold spender,
- sir terence mervyn rattigan,
- sir thomas stamford raffles,
- sir walter norman haworth,
- sir william alexander craigie,
- sir william gerald golding,
- sir william rowan hamilton,
- sir william turner walton,
- sir alfred charles bernard lovell,
- sir david alexander cecil low,
- sir james augustus henry murray,
- sir john frederick william herschel,
- sir robert eric mortimer wheeler,
- sir winston leonard spenser churchill