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ñǰ

[ seyn-yawr, -yohr, seen-; Spanish se-nyawr ]

noun

plural ñǰs, Spanish ñǰes
  1. a Spanish term of address equivalent to sir or Mr., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a man. : Sr.


ñǰ

/ sɛˈnjɔː; seˈɲor /

noun

  1. a Spaniard or Spanish-speaking man: a title of address equivalent to Mr when placed before a name or sir when used alone
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ñǰ1

1615–25; < Spanish < Vulgar Latin *senior. See senior
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ñǰ1

Spanish, from Latin senior an older man, senior
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There are only three British-trained runners - Ahoy Senor, The Real Whacker and Royale Pagaille - and they are all outsiders.

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If I close my eyes, I can map their home as it stood in my childhood — the daughters’ bedrooms I would hang out in and watch MTV when mami let me accompany her to work; the laundry room where she ironed the ñǰ’s shirts; the pictures of their daughters when they were bright-faced little girls, the tiny garden house where my sisters and I pretended to be Snow White; their home theater that felt like a museum of cinema.

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When Papi died, Mrs. J. and the ñǰ came to his wake.

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She won the top prize at the Mallorca Music Festival in 1978 with “Señor Amor,” which was composed by Armando Manzanero.

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It continued with the Dodgers’ own Señor October, Hernández, a prolific October hitter who sent Yu Darvish’s first pitch into the left-field stands in the second inning.

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