Noun: sir
Sample Sentences
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Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
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B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
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Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir. [1991 May 12, “Kidnapped!”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 2, Episode 5:]
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Just be careful. He gets whingy now if you don't address him as Sir John.
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Sir, yes sir.
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Here's my report, sir.
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Excuse me, sir, do you know the way to the art museum?
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Knowledge, sir, should be free to all! [1967 November 3, I, Mudd (Star Trek) (Science Fiction), Roger C. Carmel (actor), Paramount Domestic Television:]
Nouns inflected like sir
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 Middle English sir, unstressed form of sire, borrowed from Old French sire (“master, sir, lord”), from Latin senior (“older, elder”), from senex (“old”). Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, and sire. See: Latin Nouns '
senior'.
Verbs referencing "sir"
Russian Nouns
сэр, Ukrainian Nouns
сер.