Noun: senyor
| Singular | senyor |
| Plural | senyors |
Sample Sentences
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Their relationship was much like that of the patron-client relationships of the senyors and tenants of the past except that, since these senyors had no children, the Deianenc family would be the heirs to the estate they worked. [1996, Jacqueline Waldren, “The Realities of Paradise”, in Insiders and Outsiders: Paradise and Reality in Mallorca (New Directions in Anthropology; 3), New York, N.Y.; Oxford, Oxfordshire: Berghahn Books, published 2006, →ISBN, pages 26–27:]
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She did not mind the servants gossiping behind the senyors’ backs but did not encourage them. [2006, Mercè Rodoreda, translated by Josep Miquel Sobrer, “The Servants in Summer”, in A Broken Mirror, London: Daunt Books, →ISBN, part 1, page 104:]
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Afterwards, the senyors opened the doors of their home in Carrer de la Princesa, and all the crème de la crème of Barcelona came to snoop, pay their respects to the happy couple and, while they were there, have a look at the little heiress, who might not be so pretty but she was very rich. [2015, Care Santos, translated by Julie Wark, “Act II: Cocoa, Sugar and Cinnamon”, in Desire for Chocolate, Richmond, London: Alma Books, →ISBN, page 161:]
Nouns inflected like senyor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Catalan senyor. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, signore, sir, and sire. See: Catalan Nouns '
senyor'.