Meaning of Herr | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a German-speaking man.
3. An unincorporated community in Perry Township, Boone County, Indiana, United States.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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