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Mon·sei·gneur    Audio Help   [mawn-se-nyɶr] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural Mes·sei·gneurs    Audio Help   [mey-se-nyɶr] Pronunciation Key.
1.a French title of honor given to princes, bishops, and other persons of eminence.
2.a person bearing this title.
Also, mon·sei·gneur.


[Origin: 1590–1600; < F: my lord; see seigneur]
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Mon·sei·gneur    Audio Help   (môɴ-sě-nyɶr')  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. Mes·sei·gneurs (mā-sě-nyɶr') Abbr. Msgr. or Mgr.
Used as an honorific in French-speaking areas, especially as accorded to princes and prelates.


[French, from Old French seignor : mon, my; see Monsieur + seigneur, lord, sir; see seignior.]

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monseigneur 
1610, from Fr., title of honor equivalent to "my lord," from mon "my" + seigneur "lord," from L. seniorem, acc. of senior "older." Plural messeigneurs.

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Monseigneur

Mon`sei`gneur"\, n.; pl. Messeigneurs. [F., fr. mon my + seigneur lord, L. senior older. See Senior, and cf. Monsieur.] My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.)
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