Meanings
Herr1
plural Herren
- Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a German-speaking man.
The principal singers we now learn are to be Mdlles. Krall and Jenny Meyer, Herren Schneider and Stepan.
1858 May 1, The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 1592, London, page 569, column 32 more examples
On a variety of drawings being lately exhibited for a new town hall in one of the German capitals, a certain design of Herren Schmidt and Stauch attracted considerable attention among the art-loving public of the Fatherland, but as it happened to become a subject of jobbery, and was not to be accepted in consequence, would have been hardly accessible to larger circles of connoisseurs, without the invention of the new art.
1862 November 14, “New Photolithographic Process”, in G. Wharton Simpson, editor, The Photographic News: A Weekly Record of the Progress of Photography, volume VI, number 219, London: […] Thomas Piper, […], page 546, column 1They stand in the poses of the two provincials—Herren Müller and Schultze—whose conversations (and portraits) were a regular column in the satirical paper.
2014, Marsha Morton, Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Threshold of German Modernism, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 98Synonyms: Hr.
Herr2
Herr3
- An unincorporated community in Perry Township, Boone County, Indiana, United States.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounUsed as a courtesy title before the surname of a German-speaking man.
Origin
Herr · proper noun, noun
As a title and German and Jewish surname (also found in Hungary and France), from the noun Herr (“gentleman, sir”).
Full word history & related roots →Herr · proper noun
As a Hmongic surname, variant of Her, named after the Her clan, written in Chinese as 侯 (compare Hou).
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
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