From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Messrs. (from the French messieurs) is the plural form of both Mr. and Monsieur.
Its use in English is decreasing, although it is still used in formal (particularly legal) correspondence. It appears regularly in the magazine The Economist and in articles in The Wall Street Journal.
Messrs. implies a relationship between the individuals concerned. One might speak or write of, for example, Messrs. Dewey and Cheatem from the firm of Dewey, Cheatem and Howe, or the Messrs. Smith, where John Smith and Joe Smith are related. In written social correspondence, however all adult males are individually addressed as Mr.
This page has been transwikied to Wiktionary.
Because this article has content useful to Wikipedia's sister project Wiktionary, it has been copied to there, and its dictionary counterpart can be found at either Wiktionary:Transwiki:Messrs. or Wiktionary:Messrs.. It should no longer appear in Category:Copy to Wiktionary and should not be re-added there.
Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and if this article cannot be expanded beyond a dictionary definition, it should be tagged for deletion. If it can be expanded into an article, please do so and remove this template.
Note that {{vocab-stub}} is deprecated. If {{vocab-stub}} was removed when this article was transwikied, and the article is deemed encyclopedic, there should be a more suitable category for it.
|
