Herr

Definition

Used as a courtesy title before the surname of a German-speaking man.

Etymology

As a title and German and Jewish surname (also found in Hungary and France), from the noun Herr (“gentleman, sir”).

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."