herr
/hˈɛɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.23 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A surname.
noun
Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a German-speaking man.
name
A surname.
name
An unincorporated community in Perry Township, Boone County, Indiana, United States.
Example Sentences
- "The principal singers we now learn are to be Mdlles. Krall and Jenny Meyer, Herren Schneider and Stepan."
- "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."
- "They stand in the poses of the two provincials—Herren Müller and Schultze—whose conversations (and portraits) were a regular column in the satirical paper."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
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Synonyms
Hr.